On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:43 , Chip Marshall <chip@2bithacker.net> wrote:
On 01-Nov-2012, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> sent:
The only exceptions to this parsing would be if someone handed you a textual representation of an IPv4 mapped address (::ffff:192.0.2.50), which essentially represents the partial decimal format Masataka is requesting.
I might be missing something here, but isn't that format already valid for any IPv6 address, not just the special v4-in-v6 representation?
import socket p = '2001:abcd::192.16.10.10' n = socket.inet_pton(socket.AF_INET6, p) socket.inet_ntop(socket.AF_INET6, n) '2001:abcd::c010:a0a'
Or is the issue just the ntop part not giving you back the decimalized string?
That's not a problem and I certainly wouldn't expect it to do so. I guess the silly notation is more widely supported than I thought, but, IMHO, it's a kind of poor choice of syntax outside of the limited use of displaying IPv4-mapped addresses for dual-stack socket connections displaying IPv4 connections in IPv6 format. Owen