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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Tue Sep 29 08:11:32 CEST 2009

Guido van Rossum wrote:

I've never heard of someone who had a use case for denormalized fractions, but I don't doubt that Peter has a use case for denormalized IPNetwork objects. (Do you doubt that Peter has such a use case? If so, we have a much more fundamental disagreement.)

It would be interesting to know what his use case is. Maybe it can be addressed in a different way that doesn't require denormalised network objects.

my "sometimes it would be useful" was meant as a gentle nudge in the direction of keeping the .ip attribute.

I think the point is that it would have to be useful a lot of the time, not just "sometimes", to be worth having it on every IPNetwork object.

-- Greg

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