| ipaddress |
| ========= |
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| Python 3.3+'s [ipaddress](http://docs.python.org/dev/library/ipaddress) for Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2. |
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| This repository tracks the latest version from cpython, e.g. ipaddress from cpython 3.8 as of writing. |
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| Note that just like in Python 3.3+ you must use character strings and not byte strings for textual IP address representations: |
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| ```python |
| >>> from __future__ import unicode_literals |
| >>> ipaddress.ip_address('1.2.3.4') |
| IPv4Address(u'1.2.3.4') |
| ``` |
| or |
| ```python |
| >>> ipaddress.ip_address(u'1.2.3.4') |
| IPv4Address(u'1.2.3.4') |
| ``` |
| but not: |
| ```python |
| >>> ipaddress.ip_address(b'1.2.3.4') |
| Traceback (most recent call last): |
| File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> |
| File "ipaddress.py", line 163, in ip_address |
| ' a unicode object?' % address) |
| ipaddress.AddressValueError: '1.2.3.4' does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. Did you pass in a bytes (str in Python 2) instead of a unicode object? |
| ``` |
