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

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Mon Sep 28 03:01:35 CEST 2009

On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 at 13:59, Peter Moody wrote:

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Peter Moody <peter hda3.com> writes:

def parsenetandaddr(s):  return (IPNetwork(s), IPAddress(s.split('/')[0]))

I've only heard talk of new classes and new methods, not new constructor functions. Well, "method" in that context meant "class method" since the results aren't dependent on a particular instance. Of course, both a class method or a module-level function would be fine. so this is not the response I got when I asked what was required before. Would adding this constructor function satisfy your concerns (given sensible strict settings in the constructor, etc)? Assuming the Network type loses the notion of a specific host (or host address, or ip) attached to it, yes. this is "less useful (strictly removing functionality)" and is an example of what I explicitly said I was not going to do with ipaddr.

In that case, I vote -1 on the inclusion of ipaddr in the stdlib.

--David

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