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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Sep 28 03:26:17 CEST 2009

Peter Moody wrote:

On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

Assuming the Network type loses the notion of a specific host (or host address, or ip) attached to it, yes. this is "less useful (strictly removing functionality)" and is an example of what I explicitly said I was not going to do with ipaddr.

Would you be kind enough to explain exactly what use case you have for retaining this information?

Apologies if you've done so before -- I've been trying to follow this discussion, but that point doesn't seem to have come through clearly.

-- Greg

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