[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Sep 30 05:17:49 CEST 2009
Greg Ewing writes:
> Peter Moody wrote:
>
> > I've mentioned at least once (and others have mentioned as well) that
> > it's very common, when describing the ip address/prefix of a NIC to
> > write, "192.168.1.100/24"
>
> Yes, but if you want to *retain* all of that information,
> the object you have isn't just a "network", it's more
> like "network plus the address of its interface". So
> some people think that using the name "IPNetwork" for
> this object is confusing.
Especially since to my mind networks don't have interfaces. Hosts
have interfaces. "IPInterface", anyone? ... no, let's not go there,
stick a fork in it, it's done.
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