[issue23103] ipaddress should be Flyweight

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

IP address instances already are immutable and flyweight. There are no mutating methods. And a number of address attributes (packed, is_loopback, etc) are calculated on fly from integer representation.

But IP address objects can be lighter.

1) Use __slots__.
2) Every instance has the _version attribute. Why this is not class attribute?
3) Memory consumption can be even less if IP addresses would int subclasses. But this changes the API (in particular adds the __index__ method) and I doubt that we should do this.

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