pydhcplib.ipv4(3) Type for IP addresses version 4

SYNOPSIS

from pydhcplib.type_ipv4 import ipv4

a = ipv4()
a = ipv4(string)
a = ipv4(strlist)
a = ipv4(int)

DESCRIPTION

The class pydhcplib.ipv4 is a type "IP address version 4". It's used for string processing like "192.168.0.4".

The class creation argument can be a string like "192.168.0.4".

The class creation argument can be a list of bytes like [192,168,0,4].

METHODS

The implemented methods in this class are mostly methods of comparison (= =, >, etc...)

else :

str() return data converted into a printable string.

list() return data converted into a list of bytes.

int() return data converted into an 4 bytes int.

EXAMPLES

Example program ipv4_example.py :

from pydhcplib.type_ipv4 import ipv4

address = ipv4()
address1 = ipv4("192.168.0.1")
address2 = ipv4("10.0.0.1")
address3 = ipv4([192,168,0,1])

print "a0 : ",address
print "a1 : ",address1
print "a2 : ",address2
print "a3 : ",address3

if address1 == address2 :
       print "test 1 : ",address1, "==",address2

else :
       print "test 1 : " ,address1, "!=",address2

if address1 == address3 :
       print "test 2 : ", address1, "==",address3

else :
       print "test 2 : ", address1, "!=",address3

BUGS

See http://pydhcplib.tuxfamily.org/ for more information.

AUTHOR

Mathieu Ignacio (mignacio[AT]april.org)