Python 3.3+'s ipaddress for Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.2.
This repository tracks the latest version from cpython, e.g. ipaddress from cpython 3.8 as of writing.
This is the ActiveState fork to provide CVE fixes for Python 2.7.
Note that just like in Python 3.3+ you must use character strings and not byte strings for textual IP address representations:
>>> from __future__ import unicode_literals
>>> ipaddress.ip_address('1.2.3.4')
IPv4Address(u'1.2.3.4')or
>>> ipaddress.ip_address(u'1.2.3.4')
IPv4Address(u'1.2.3.4')but not:
>>> ipaddress.ip_address(b'1.2.3.4')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "ipaddress.py", line 163, in ip_address
' a unicode object?' % address)
ipaddress.AddressValueError: '1.2.3.4' does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. Did you pass in a bytes (str in Python 2) instead of a unicode object?