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

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Sep 29 19:00:39 CEST 2009

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

I've mentioned at least once (and others have mentioned as well) that it's very common, when describing the ip address/prefix of a NIC to write, "192.168.1.100/24" You say it yourself : it describes "the ip address/prefix of a NIC". It isn't the job of a Network class. A Network shouldn't describe a host, or a particular NIC.

Hey Antoine,

Can we drop the pedantic discussion about what "should" or "shouldn't" be the job of a "Network" class, and just proceed to a pragmatic compromise? Peter has already posted that he is okay with eq and friends ignoring the .ip attribute, which sounds good enough to me. His use case (which he mentioned to me off-list) is simply that if the denormalized .ip attribute weren't saved as part of the IPNetwork class, in many cases he'd have to keep track of it separately, which just feels clumsy.

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