> - Masks are also 32- (128-) bit integers, which happen to have the > property that their leftmost N bits are all zero and the rest are all > one.
As a side note, I would be in favor of dropping the concept of a mask from the library, and only support a prefix length. IPv6 doesn't support masks at all, and even for IPv4, I think there are conventions (if not RFCs) against using them in a way that does not correspond to a prefix length. Regards, Martin _______________________________________________ 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
