[New-bugs-announce] [issue43769] ipaddress module takes bytes input as valid ip address

[Philip Bond]

New submission from Philip Bond <philip.bond at fasthosts.com>:

Hi I came across an issue with the ipaddress module where it doesent raise a ValueError when passed a non IP address.

Example see attached file  use tabs for indents and that doesent work with the form.

What happens is it when it takes b'PING' as the call to ipaddress.IPv4Address(address) as the byte value == 4 it doesent raise a ValueError as the bytes for PING are 50 49 4e 47

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components: Unicode
files: cidr-gen.py
messages: 390478
nosy: ezio.melotti, philip.bond, vstinner
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: ipaddress module takes bytes input as valid ip address
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.6
Added file: https://bugs.python.org/file49940/cidr-gen.py

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