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[Python-Dev] PEP 3144 review.

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Sep 30 05:17:49 CEST 2009 
Greg Ewing writes:
 > Peter Moody wrote:
 > 
 > > I've mentioned at least once (and others have mentioned as well) that
 > > it's very common, when describing the ip address/prefix of a NIC to
 > > write, "192.168.1.100/24"
 > 
 > Yes, but if you want to *retain* all of that information,
 > the object you have isn't just a "network", it's more
 > like "network plus the address of its interface". So
 > some people think that using the name "IPNetwork" for
 > this object is confusing.

Especially since to my mind networks don't have interfaces.  Hosts
have interfaces.  "IPInterface", anyone? ... no, let's not go there,
stick a fork in it, it's done.
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