1.3 IPAddr Objects

1.3 `IPAddr` Objects

An IPAddr object represents an IPv4 or IPv6 address.

class IPAddr( address)

The constructor takes either a string address, which must be a string representation of either an IPv4 or IPv6 address, or an integer representation of the address. IPv6 addresses are only accepted if ipv6_enabled() returns True.

Examples:

>>> addr1 = IPAddr('192.160.1.1')
>>> addr2 = IPAddr('2001:db8::1428:57ab')
>>> addr3 = IPAddr('::ffff:12.34.56.78')
>>> addr4 = IPAddr(0xffffffff)
>>> addr5 = IPAddr(0xffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff)

Supported operations:

Operation	Result
`addr1 < addr2`	`addr1` is considered less than `addr2` if the 128-bit representation of `addr1` is less than `addr2`
`int(addr1)`	The integer representation of `addr`

Instance methods:

ipv6( ): Return True if the address is an IPv6 address, False otherwise.

__str__( ): For an address addr, str(addr) returns a human-readable representation of that address.