[issue14814] Implement PEP 3144 (the ipaddress module)

[Nick Coghlan]

Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> added the comment:

My guess would be that they're intended as a micro-optimisation (instance lookups should be faster than class attribute lookups). You do lose on the memory front though, since they make the instances bigger.

Without a micro benchmark of any kind, I'm not inclined to mess with them at this point.

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