[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review. (original) (raw)

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Sat Sep 19 12:54:36 CEST 2009

Cameron Simpson wrote:

On 18Sep2009 07:48, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote: | Eric Smith wrote: | > Peter Moody wrote: | >> indexing is plenty efficient, but the problem is that these names for | >> these attributes are common to the point of causing confusion if | >> they're omitted. | > | > After thinking about it some more, I'm okay with names for [-1] and [0]. | > I like .broadcast, and I can live with .network (although it's | > confusing, since in my view it should return an address, not a network). | | And in fact does return an Address - the same address that mynet[0] | returns.

Yes, I think Eric was complaining about the name being "network", since we have Network objects and this isn't one.

Right. thing_commonly_referred_to_as_network_but_is_an_address.

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