On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 at 18:43, Antoine Pitrou wrote:
R. David Murray <rdmurray <at> bitdance.com> writes:x = IPv4AddressWithMask('192.168.1.1/24') x.network == IPv4Network('192.168.1.0/24') x.network[1] == xI don't think we need an IPAddressWithMask which would just complicate the API without any obvious benefit. We just need a factory function which returns a tuple after parsing: >>> addr, net = parse_address_with_mask('192.168.1.1/24') >>> addr == IPv4Address('192.168.1.1') True >>> net == IPv4Network('192.168.1.0/24') True
I would find that acceptable but sub-optimal. Most of my use cases (which involve manipulating router and firewall configuration files) would then start by making a little class named AddressWithNetwork to hold the tuple returned by your parse function, with attributes 'ip' and 'network' and a representation that included the netmask. Other people's use cases would look like addr, _ = parse_address... An IPv4Address with 'network' and 'mask' attributes that could be None would also not complicate the API, IMO, and would handle both of these use cases. --David _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
