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

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Thu Sep 17 20:47:35 CEST 2009


On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:41:37 am Andrew McNamara wrote:

In the olden days, the mask was spelled out in octets (eg 255.255.255.0). But we've moved to a more compact and logical notation where the number of leading significant bits is specified (eg /24).

I hope you're not suggesting the older notation be unsupported? I would expect to be able to use a mask like 255.255.255.192 without having to count bits myself.

-- Steven D'Aprano



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