Agreed that this could be achieved by a third party library; and probably already is - but the ipaddress module in Python could also have been one. Therefore I feel it would somewhat complete the already existing networking utilities already included if we were to implement this within the standard library. It is for this reason i also recommend an API that is familiar to people who already use the ipaddress module; as this would be a layer 2 compliment to the existing package.
Happy to discuss, Pete Wicken On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 8:14 PM Christopher Barker <python...@gmail.com> wrote: > This is a perfect idea for a third party package to be put on PyPi. Have > you looked to see if one exists already? > > If, at some point, there is a robust and mature version that is widely > used, then it might be worth considering g for the standard library. > > -CHB > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 4:53 AM Pete Wicken <petewic...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Currently in Python 3 we have an ipaddress module which allows easy >> manipulation of IP version 4 and 6 addresses and networks. Examples of this >> are getting the packed bytes representation of an address, checking if an >> address is of a specific type according to the RFC (private, multicast, >> etc.) >> >> My proposal is that we have something with a similar API for MAC >> addresses. A lot of these operations that we have for IPv4 and IPv6 >> addresses are also applicable for MAC addresses. We can take in >> concatenated, hyphenated or dotted notations. >> Some of the methods could include >> packed >> is_multicast >> is_broadcast >> is_universal >> get_oui >> >> and optionally format outputs >> >> dotted(upper=False) >> hyphenated(upper=False) >> concatenated(upper=False) >> >> >> get_oui could initially just return the OUI part of the address without >> resolving. However, it is possible that on build of Python we pull down the >> latest OUIs from IEEE into a python file. >> >> My initial thought if people are in agreement was to have a macaddress.py >> module. However if the APIs for these are similar enough, perhaps it >> warrants having a networkaddress.py module that contains both the old >> ipaddress code and the new macaddress code? >> >> I would be grateful to hear people's thoughts on this. >> >> Pete Wicken >> _______________________________________________ >> Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org >> To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org >> https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ >> Message archived at >> https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/GRCNHOEGNVTO2O5O4JKDCGFGR3MRHIAP/ >> Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >> > -- > Christopher Barker, PhD > > Python Language Consulting > - Teaching > - Scientific Software Development > - Desktop GUI and Web Development > - wxPython, numpy, scipy, Cython >
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