Patch by Jp Calderone:

- The socket module now provides the functions inet_pton and inet_ntop
  for converting between string and packed representation of IP addresses.
  See SF patch #658327.

This still needs a bit of work in the doc area, because it is not
available on all platforms (especially not on Windows).

2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index f99f658..2fbe9af 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ Alastair Burt
 Tarn Weisner Burton
 Lee Busby
 Ralph Butler
+Jp Calderone
 Daniel Calvelo
 Brett Cannon
 Mike Carlton
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d666762..8c1d7c5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -383,6 +383,10 @@ Extension modules
   zlib test suite using the unittest module.  (SF bug #640230 and
   patch #678531.)
 
+- The socket module now provides the functions inet_pton and inet_ntop
+  for converting between string and packed representation of IP addresses.
+  See SF patch #658327.
+
 - Added an itertools module containing high speed, memory efficient
   looping constructs inspired by tools from Haskell and SML.