On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:44:04 am DrKJam wrote: > IPv6 doesn't support the notion of a broadcast address as part of a > CIDR network block at all. AFAIK, it is a perfect legitimate for the > last address in an IPv6 block to be used to configure a network > interface. The IPv6 network object interface should possibly leave > out the broadcast property/method altogether although there are > reasons to keep it in for the sake of completeness and API > consistency. The pros and cons of this need to be considered.
This seems to me to be rather weird: that for the sake of completeness and consistency you're considering to give an object which (allegedly) has no notion of "broadcast address" a broadcast address method. If so, I can see three options. Given an appropriate IPv6 object: obj.broadcast() always returns None. obj.broadcast() always raises an exception. obj.broadcast() always returns something which is not a broadcast address. I would hope the third option isn't being seriously considered! Are there any reasons to consider the first two? -- Steven D'Aprano _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
