Re: Bug#785275: ITP: python-ipaddress -- Backport of the ipaddress module from Python 3.3
On 22 May 2015 at 15:43, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
> I'm not sure if I was looking at the wrong ipaddr or something but the
> documentation I found was pretty crappy and looking at it I didn't see how to
> actually use ipaddr the same way I was using ipaddress in pip. In addition to
> that, the API doesn't really look the same as the ipaddress to me so it's going
> to require some sort of compatability shim maintained in pip in order to be
> able to run one module on Python 2 and another module on Python 3.
If you're talking about the documentation linked to from PyPI (at
<http://pythonhosted.org//ipaddr/>), the problem is just that the
documentation is for an ancient version of ipaddr. I was also thrown
off by this originally, but if you look at an actually-recent version
of ipaddr, the API seems to be the same (or at least very similar, I
didn't look into it in detail so there may be differences in
unicode/bytes handling, although I hope not).
On the other hand, if upstream software is going to use ipaddress, it
really doesn't seem like Debian's place to patch everything to use
ipaddr.
On 22 May 2015 at 03:50, Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> wrote:
> I'm also concerned that because of type processing differences (strings versus
> bytes and UTF-8 by default versus not) there is potential for subtle
> incompatibilities in the backported ipaddress. I had complaints on an
> upstream project that uses ipaddress with python3 when it was available
> failing with ipaddress in python2.
I don't quite follow this. If ipaddr isn't compatible with ipaddress,
then the claim that you can simply import ipaddr instead of ipaddress
is obviously not true for software that is currently using ipaddress.
On the other hand, if they are compatible, then having ipaddress
installed shouldn't break anything regardless of whether it imports
ipaddress or ipaddr.
Or are you saying that the ipaddress backport is not compatible with
python3 stdlib's ipaddress? (This would be a very unfortunate state of
affairs, but impossible to imagine)
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