Peter Moody <peter <at> hda3.com> writes: > > the address with all of the hosts bits masked to zero is most commonly > referred to as the network address. same as the address with all of > the host bits set to one is called the broadcast address. calling it > something like base_address or min_address will cause quite a bit more > confusion.
Quite a bit less IMO. I'm not a network specialist, but the "network address" of a network sounds quite vague to me, while things like "lower_bound", "first", "first_address", "firstip" are immediately understandable and non-ambiguous. _______________________________________________ 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
