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

Peter Moody peter at hda3.com
Tue Sep 15 20:46:01 CEST 2009


On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> wrote:

Antoine Pitrou writes:

 > Speaking as a non-network specialist, it actually looks logical to  > me to be given an address if I iterate over a network (the same way  > that, if I iterate on a list, I get individual elements, not  > 1-element sublists). But if you iterate over a string you get one character strings.  So it's an issue of convenience of representation.

True, but you don't get a string of equal length back.

from the PEP:

(that should probably say "treat networks as lists")

you will no be able, with a string, to do something like

'this is my string'[0][1][2][3]

but that's what's being suggested here for networks.

ipaddr.IPv4Network('1.1.1.1/24')[0][1][2][3]...


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