[Python-Dev] conceptual clarity

[Peter Moody]

On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 10:32 AM, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 at 09:16, Peter Moody wrote:
>>
>> I mentioned before that IPy's insistence on receiving masked out
>> networks was one of the main reasons I wrote ipaddr to begin with.
>> Having ipaddr mimic this behavior would make it significantly less
>> useful. Removing functionality in the name of avoiding confusion
>> doesn't make sense when the same confusion can be alleviated w/o the
>> loss.
>
> We're suggesting moving that functionality (accepting a non-masked IP
> plus netmask and returning the corresponding Network object) into
> a different constructor, not eliminating the functionality.

Do you mean a new constructor function, ala IPAddress and IPNetwork
(so the current classes remain largely the same and the various
constructors enforce certain restrictions) or something else?

At this point, I'm getting confused with the intermingling of class
and constructor names.

Cheers,
/peter

> --David
>