Update from Peter Moody

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Barry Warsaw 2012-05-14 10:25:14 -04:00
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@ -59,6 +59,23 @@ Background:
return iterators. This includes, subnets, address_exclude,
summarize_address_range and collapse_address_list.
* A number of methods and functions which returned containers in ipaddr now
return iterators. This includes, subnets, address_exclude,
summarize_address_range and collapse_address_list.
Due to the backwards incompatible API changes between ipaddress and ipaddr,
the proposal is to add the module using the new provisional API status:
* http://docs.python.org/dev/glossary.html#term-provisional-package
Relevant messages on python-dev:
* http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-January/116016.html
* http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116656.html
* http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2012-February/116688.html
Due to the backwards incompatible API changes between ipaddress and ipaddr,
the proposal is to add the module using the new provisional API status:
@ -118,8 +135,7 @@ Specification:
_BaseV4 - Provides methods and variables (eg, _max_prefixlen)
common to all IPv4 classes.
_BaseV6 - Provides methods and variables common to all IPv6
classes.
_BaseV6 - Provides methods and variables common to all IPv6 classes.
Comparisons between objects of differing IP versions results in a
TypeError [1]. Additionally, comparisons of objects with
@ -132,10 +148,10 @@ Specification:
Reference Implementation:
The current reference implementation can be found at:
https://code.google.com/p/ipaddr-py/source/browse/branches/3144/ipaddress.py
http://code.google.com/p/ipaddress-py/source/browse/ipaddress.py
Or see the tarball to include the README and unittests.
http://code.google.com/p/ipaddr-py/downloads/detail?name=3144.tar.gz
http://code.google.com/p/ipaddress-py/downloads/detail?name=ipaddress-1.0.tar.gz
More information about using the reference implementation can be
found at: http://code.google.com/p/ipaddr-py/wiki/Using3144