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

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed Aug 26 20:49:38 CEST 2009

Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> writes:

DrKJam <drkjam gmail.com> writes: > netaddr employs a simple variant of the GoF Strategy design pattern (with added Python sensibility).

It would be nice if you could avoid employing this kind of acronyms without explaining them. Not everybody drinks the design pattern kool-aid.

A pity, since the entire point of Design Patterns is to give us a vocabulary of terms to use that enable these concepts to be communicated without continually re-defining them. To that extent, then, they fail their purpose.

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