[Python-3000] IPv6 address tuple

Erno Kuusela erno at iki.fi
Fri Mar 23 07:48:26 CET 2007


hello,

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Brett Cannon wrote:

| On 22 Mar 2007 19:47:50 +0200, Erno Kuusela <erno at iki.fi> wrote:
| >Hello,
| >
| >Would it be out of the question to change the IPv6 address 4-tuple to
| >a 2-tuple (as used with IPv4) in Python 2.0? This is a source of many
| >compatibility problems, and the additional flowinfo and scope elements
| >from the IPv6 tuple are practically never used by normal applications.
| >
| 
| This is the wrong list to ask about Python 2.x issues; that's
| python-dev.  And yes, it would most likely be almost impossible.

That was a typo, sorry - I meant Python 3.0.

  -- erno


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