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[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

R. David Murray rdmurray at bitdance.com
Wed Sep 30 04:12:54 CEST 2009 
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 at 11:07, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> At the risk of bikeshedding a bit, I'm still somewhat uncomfortable with
> the "net.network" and "net.ip" attribute names. RDMs example application
> elicited the reason for that discomfort pretty well: the current naming
> seems like an invitation to write code using 'net.ip' that should have
> used 'net.network' instead. Such code will then work correctly most of
> the time (i.e. when only given normalised IPNetwork objects) but will
> fail when given a denormalised one.
>
> I believe that discomfort could be eliminated best by changing the name
> of the ".ip" attribute to ".host_ip" to make it clear that it is
> referring to the IP address of the host that was used to derive the
> network definition rather than referring to the network ID itself.
> Shortening ".network" to ".net_ip" would also help (this latter change
> would also eliminate the mental disconnect caused by an attribute called
> .network returning an IPAddress instance).

+1

--David (RDM)
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