playing with IP's

[Langa Kentane]

Greetings.
Here is what I wanna do:
Given a network number and mask ie:
192.168.1.0/26
I want to create a list with all the valid hosts on that range.
Problem is I don't know how to play with binary

Where would I start.. any sample code?
Thanks

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