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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 12:02:19 CEST 2009

Joel Bender wrote:

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.

Ah, that would be me showing my (lack of) age then :)

I was still six years or so away from getting my first computer and more than 15 years away from any formal networking training when that note was published...

Cheers, Nick.

-- Nick Coghlan | ncoghlan at gmail.com | Brisbane, Australia

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