Oleg Broytmann phd at phd.pp.ru
Tue Aug 18 22:34:27 CEST 2009

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> http://ipaddr-py.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.0.x/ipaddr.py :

> def IP(address, host=False, version=None):
>     """Take an IP string/int and return an object of the correct type.
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>     Args:
>         ip_str: ...

   The arg is 'address', not 'ip_str'.

   There are two classes, IPv4 and IPv6 whose __new__ never create an
instance of its class, instead they create instances of other classes. Why
IPv4 and IPv6 are classes and not (factory) functions (like function IP)?

Oleg.
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