[Python-Dev] PEP 3144: IP Address Manipulation Library for the Python Standard Library (original) (raw)

Joel Bender jjb5 at cornell.edu
Thu Aug 20 22:34:46 CEST 2009

Nick Coghlan wrote:

Maybe this is something that differs by country, but I have never heard the first address in an IP network (i.e. every bit not covered by the netmask set to zero) referred to as anything other than the "network address".

Ah! A change to interject a mostly pointless comment...

Prior to IEN-212 [1] it wasn't standardized, the 'zero' was used and supported by the Berkeley socket library. This was a number of years ago, however (!), and I dare say the sample code is lost to antiquity.

And if someone does need to deal with that, then they create an appropriate subclass or use a less lightweight IP addressing library.

Indeed.

Joel [1] <http://www.networksorcery.com/enp/ien/ien212.txt>

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