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| author | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2014-05-15 20:55:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> | 2014-05-15 20:55:40 (GMT) |
| commit | 0dfce56cd170ff349b91493090814466e163767b (patch) | |
| tree | a6ff96b41aea3bab8690728474e2a2b5178cd44c /Doc/whatsnew | |
| parent | b9d9ce73d7738e452324ab43c19331cf50dcae14 (diff) | |
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Mention ipaddress improvements.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst index 52c3e21..91cec97 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.5.rst @@ -164,6 +164,14 @@ inspect subclassing of :class:`~inspect.Signature` easier (contributed by Yury Selivanov and Eric Snow in :issue:`17373`). +ipaddress +--------- + +* :class:`ipaddress.IPv4Network` and :class:`ipaddress.IPv6Network` now + accept an ``(address, netmask)`` tuple argument, so as to easily construct + network objects from existing addresses (contributed by Peter Moody + and Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`16531`). + signal ------ @@ -189,6 +197,13 @@ The following performance enhancements have been added: data) for large objects. ``calloc()`` is used instead of ``malloc()`` to allocate memory for these objects. +* Some operations on :class:`~ipaddress.IPv4Network` and + :class:`~ipaddress.IPv6Network` have been massively sped up, such as + :meth:`~ipaddress.IPv4Network.subnets`, :meth:`~ipaddress.IPv4Network.supernet`, + :func:`~ipaddress.summarize_address_range`, :func:`~ipaddress.collapse_addresses`. + The speed up can range from 3x to 15x. + (:issue:`21486`, :issue:`21487`, :issue:`20826`) + Build and C API Changes ======================= |