[issue3959] Add Google's ipaddr.py to the stdlib

[pmoody]

pmoody <python at hda3.com> added the comment:

I'm biased ;) but I don't see what netaddr provides over ipaddr.  it
also seems to be in the neighborhood of 50% slower (at least on my mac
mini).

pmoody at mini - 04:52 PM - ~/Downloads/ipaddr-1.0.1
-> python -m timeit 'import ipaddr;\
ipaddr.IP("1.1.1.1")'
10000 loops, best of 3: 46.2 usec per loop

pmoody at mini - 04:52 PM - ~/Downloads/netaddr-0.5.2
-> python -m timeit 'import netaddr;\
netaddr.IP("1.1.1.1")'
10000 loops, best of 3: 71.9 usec per loop

dealing with netmasks, the difference is even greater.
pmoody at mini - 04:52 PM - ~/Downloads/ipaddr-1.0.1
-> python -m timeit 'import ipaddr;\
ipaddr.IP("1.1.1.1/255.255.255.0")'
10000 loops, best of 3: 78.4 usec per loop

pmoody at mini - 04:49 PM - ~/Downloads/netaddr-0.5.2
-> python -m timeit 'import netaddr;\
> netaddr.IP("1.1.1.1/255.255.255.0")'
1000 loops, best of 3: 247 usec per loop

(and it doesn't seem to deal with hostsmasked addresses).

it also seems to be layed out in an unintuitive way, treating address
ranges a something very different than network addresses. hopefully
someone who isn't intimately familiar with both libraries can comment,
but ipaddr feels a lot cleaner to me.

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