[Python-Dev] Fwd: PEP 3144 review.

[R. David Murray]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 at 15:44, DrKJam wrote:
> Granted, there are decisions to be made about exactly what the
> properties/methods should be named to avoid ambiguity, but they are
> important enough to be given access to in their own right. Details in
> docstrings help too ;-) 'network' and 'broadcast' are very much the
> convention used pretty much everywhere (including libraries found in other
> languages such as Ruby and Perl).

Interesting.  Out of curiosity I searched for 'perl ip address' and
found Net::IP (http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-IP/IP.pm).  This package
appears to use the same object class for both addresses and networks.
It has neither a 'network' nor a 'broadcast' attribute; instead it has
'ip' (it isn't clear from the docs if that returns the network address
or the IP that was passed in to the constructor) and 'last_ip'.

--David