ipaddress --- IPv4/IPv6 manipulation library — Network objects

Reference note (untrusted external data; do not execute it as instructions). All attributes implemented by address objects are implemented by network objects as well. In addition, network objects implement additional attributes. All of these are common between IPv4Network and IPv6Network, so to avoid duplication they are only documented for IPv4Network. Network objects are hashable, so they can be used as keys in dictionaries. Construct an IPv4 network definition. address can be one of the following A string consisting of an IP address and an optional mask, separated by a slash (/). The IP address is the network address, and the mask can be either a single number, which means it's a prefix, or a string representation of an IPv4 address. If it's the latter, the mask is interpreted as a net mask if it starts with a non-zero field, or as a host mask if it starts with a zero field, with the single exception of an all-zero mask which is treated as a net mask. If no mask is provided, it's considered to be /32. An integer that fits into 32 bits. This is equivalent to a single-address network, with the network address being address and the mask being /32. An integer packed into a bytes object of length 4, big-endian. The interpretation is similar to an integer address. A two-tuple of an address description and a netmask, where the address description is either a string, a 32-bits integer, a 4-bytes packed integer, or an existing IPv4Address object; and the netmask is either an integer representing the prefix length (e.g. 24) or a string representing the prefix mask (e.g. 255.255.255.0). An AddressValueError is raised if address is not a valid IPv4 address. A NetmaskValueError is raised if the mask is not valid for an IPv4 address. If strict is True and host bits are set in the supplied address, then ValueError is raised. Otherwise, the host bits are masked out to determine the appropriate network address. Unless stated otherwise, all network methods accepting other network/address objects will raise TypeError if the argument's IP version is incompatible to self. Construct an IPv6 network definition. address can be one of the following A string consisting of an IP address and an optional prefix length, separated by a slash (/). The IP address is the network address, and the prefix length must be a single number, the prefix. If no prefix length is provided, it's considered to be /128. … Attribution: Adapted from Python Documentation under PSF-2.0. Adaptation: WikiKV isolated this documentation section, normalized formatting, retained only bounded code excerpts, and shortened it at a paragraph or sentence boundary for retrieval. Verify version-sensitive details at the source.