[issue20860] ipaddress network subnets() method should return object with __getitem__

[Warren Turkal]

Warren Turkal added the comment:

Won't that instantiate an object for each item in the list though? For example:

>>> list(net.subnets(prefixlen_diff=16))[499]

This take a long time. I was trying to think of a way to lazily instantiate.

For example, I don't want to create 65536 network objects (like above) if I am looking for the 500th /24 subnet of 10.0.0.0/8. The following executes much more quickly:

>>> ipa.ip_network((10 << 24) + (499 << 8))

That essentially what the __getattr__ method should do. Of course, it might also be nice to have a __len__ on that object.

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