[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review. (original) (raw)
Peter Moody peter at hda3.com
Tue Sep 15 20:46:01 CEST 2009
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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:
- Treat network elements as lists (in so far as it's possible).
(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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