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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst index 426ad91..7fa2316 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst @@ -353,9 +353,40 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules It provides classes to represent, verify and manipulate IPv4 and IPv6 host and network addresses. + The :func:`ipaddr.IP` factory function creates an address object from + a string or integer representing the IP or the IP and prefix/netmask. + The objects provide a number of attributes for direct access to + components of the full address:: + + >>> addr = IP('2001:658:22A:CAFE:200::1/64') + >>> for attr in ['ip', 'ip_ext', 'ip_ext_full', 'network', 'network_ext', + ... 'hostmask', 'hostmask_ext', 'broadcast', 'broadcast_ext', + ... 'netmask', 'netmask_ext', 'prefixlen']: + ... print(attr, '=', getattr(addr, attr)) + ... + ip = 42540616829182469433547762482097946625 + ip_ext = 2001:658:22a:cafe:200::1 + ip_ext_full = 2001:0658:022a:cafe:0200:0000:0000:0001 + network = 42540616829182469433403647294022090752 + network_ext = 2001:658:22a:cafe:: + hostmask = 18446744073709551615 + hostmask_ext = ::ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff + broadcast = 42540616829182469451850391367731642367 + broadcast_ext = 2001:658:22a:cafe:ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff + netmask = 340282366920938463444927863358058659840 + netmask_ext = 64 + prefixlen = 64 + + Each address object supports a number of simple properties including: + ``is_private``, ``is_multicast``, ``is_loopback``, and ``is_link_local``. + + Additionally, the address objects provide a sort order for IP addresses, + support for address ranges (stored as lists of addresses), and subnet + computations. + (Contributed by Google, :issue:`3959`.) -* The :mod:`nntplib` :mod:`imaplib` modules now support IPv6. +* The :mod:`nntplib` and :mod:`imaplib` modules now support IPv6. (Contributed by Derek Morr; :issue:`1655` and :issue:`1664`.) |