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Thu Oct 1 02:16:06 CEST 2009 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2009-October/092684.html

Peter Moody wrote:
> it's useful to take an
> address like 192.168.1.100/24 and derive a bunch of information from
> it (like the network address, broadcast address, containing supernets,
> etc), but still remember that the original address was 192.168.1.100.
> having a separate class or two for this is overly burdensome in my
> mind.

Seems to me what you want isn't so much an IPNetwork that
can optionally have an address, as an IPAddress that can
optionally have a mask, and methods for deriving those
other things from it.

-- 
Greg

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