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

Peter Moody peter at hda3.com
Wed Sep 30 23:48:25 CEST 2009

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this is what I wrote:

it's not so much a need as it is useful. it's useful to take an address like 192.168.1.100/24 and derive a bunch of information from it (like the network address, broadcast address, containing supernets, etc), but still remember that the original address was 192.168.1.100. having a separate class or two for this is overly burdensome in my mind. FWIW, netaddr does the same thing.

Cheers, /peter

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 2:34 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

I don't know -- this is (from what Peter told me) a common use case so he (and presumably  others) would from time to time have to write extra code to keep track of that IP address in a new app. I, and probably others, would really, REALLY like to see one such "common use case". I do find it puzzling that non of the readers here can think of any, and the continued assertion that use cases do exist without them being presented is somewhat disturbing. Regards, Martin

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