backport_collections is a backport of Python 3's ipaddress module for Python 2.6 and Python 2.7.
It is based on the backport of Søren Løvborg (https://bitbucket.org/kwi/py2-ipaddress/).
The ipaddress module.
To use it just import the module ipaddress as you would in Python 3.
Example:
import ipaddress
Given that there is no real bytes types in Python 2, we are using bytearray, which is a
mutable version of bytes and in Python 2, has fewer methods.
So if in Python 3 you would do:
ipaddress.ip_address(b'\x00\x00\x00\x00')
with this port you need to do:
ipaddress.ip_address(bytearray('\x00\x00\x00\x00'))
One thing that is missing and could be important for performance is the
lru_cache for many of the methods. functools in Python 2 does not have
such decorator. Maybe in the future I will backport that method as well.
The Python Software Foundation License.
- v0.1 (15/08/2014): Synced to revision http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/15bfb82194fa