Martin v. Löwis <martin <at> v.loewis.de> writes: > > Still, people proposing that 192.168.1.1/24 should be rejected (I still > don't know whether anybody is actually proposing that) *have* to provide > a proposal how this should be input instead.
It was proposed to have a dedicated function or class method which would parse such strings and return a (Network, Address) tuple corresponding to the two objects that are described by that single notation. >>> parse_network_and_host('192.168.1.1/24') (Network('192.168.1.0/24'), Address('192.168.1.1')) Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ 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