[issue27860] Improvements to ipaddress module

[Inada Naoki]

Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> added the comment:

> I was wondering why it was decided against backporting to 3.7?

Because I treats this is just a code cleanup.

> 6fa84bd12c4b83bee6a41b989363230d5c03b96c fixes an actual bug #35990 (string mask in tuple argument for IPv4Interfaces).

I didn't thought it was a bug.
I don't know it is real bug which should be backported to 3.7 for now.

> Incidentally, there are also no tests for this behavior.

Because I thought there are no change about public (documented) behavior.

> Just to note: both merged PRs lacked news entry.

NEWS entry is not needed for code cleanup.

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