[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

[Eric Smith]

Antoine Pitrou wrote:
> Antoine Pitrou <solipsis <at> pitrou.net> writes:
>> I don't see any valid reason for entering a network as "192.168.1.1/24" rather
>> than the canonical "192.168.1.0/24". The former might indicate a typing error
>> or
>> a mental slip, so let's be helpful and signal it to the user.
> 
> Or perhaps there can be an optional "strict=True" (or "strict=False") argument
> to the constructor / parsing function.

If so, I hope that we'd default to strict=True.