Message 195568 - Python tracker

Message195568

Author	pmoody
Recipients	christian.heimes, jcea, leim, macfreek, ncoghlan, pmoody, santoso.wijaya, terry.reedy, vstinner
Date	2013-08-18.15:31:37
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Message-id	<1376839897.73.0.854433532618.issue17400@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I'm still not convinced. The rfc still says in essence "It's not private like rfc1918 space, but sometimes certain people can treat it similarly." and I think it would be pretty surprising for ipaddress to return True if it's not a network operator running the query. Since we have no way of knowing that, I'm extremely disinclined to make this change. A more formal solution would be all of the possible "is_RFCXXXX" methods, but that doesn't seem to be worth the effort.

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I'm still not convinced. The rfc still says in essence "It's not private like rfc1918 space, but sometimes certain people can treat it similarly." and I think it would be pretty surprising for ipaddress to return True if it's not a network operator running the query. Since we have no way of knowing that, I'm extremely disinclined to make this change. A more formal solution would be all of the possible "is_RFCXXXX" methods, but that doesn't seem to be worth the effort.

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