IPV6ADDR(3)

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✨ IPV6ADDR(3) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the ipv6addr manual, version 1.1 — yes it's a real section 3 page, yes we're doing this, and yes it's gonna be cute 💅

🎀 NAME 🎀

packet.internet.ipv6addr — the IPv6Addr module, no cap 🌈

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the whole vibe here? You make an object that represents an IPv6 address. You can hand it the address either as a series of hexadecimal numbers or using the : notation — both are valid, pick your fighter 💖

It also gives you a way to compare this object against a regular string. And because it's a generous icon, it handles the :: notation and leading zeroes for you, so you don't have to sit there counting zeros like it's a math final 😭

👑 CLASSES 👑

🌸 class IPv6Addr(builtins.str) 🌸

Your actual IPv6Addr address object. It's giving str energy, because it literally is one 💜

Usage:

from packet.internet.ipv6addr import IPv6Addr

ip = IPv6Addr('fe80000000000000020c29fffe5409ef')

And now the part that genuinely ate — all of these expressions are equivalent, like every single one of them hits the same 🎯

ip == 0xFE80000000000000020C29FFFE5409EF
ip == 0xfe80000000000000020c29fffe5409ef
ip == '0xFE80000000000000020C29FFFE5409EF'
ip == '0xfe80000000000000020c29fffe5409ef'
ip == 'FE80000000000000020C29FFFE5409EF'
ip == 'fe80000000000000020c29fffe5409ef'
ip == 'FE80:0000:0000:0000:020C:29FF:FE54:09EF'
ip == 'fe80:0000:0000:0000:020c:29ff:fe54:09ef'
ip == 'FE80::020C:29FF:FE54:09EF'
ip == 'fe80::020c:29ff:fe54:09ef'
ip == 'FE80::20C:29FF:FE54:9EF'
ip == 'fe80::20c:29ff:fe54:9ef'

Uppercase? lowercase? 0x prefix? full form? compressed :: form? leading zeroes or nah? it does not care bestie, it treats them all the same 🫶

💫 Methods defined here:

  • __eq__(self, other) — compares two IPv6 addresses and returns True if both are equal 💚
  • __ne__(self, other) — compares two IPv6 addresses and returns False if both are equal. yes it's the little mirror gremlin of __eq__, that's just how it is 🙈

⭐ Static methods defined here:

  • __new__(cls, ip) — creates a new instance by converting the input int/string into a persistent representation of an IPv6 address. this is the ✨main character✨ of the whole operation ngl

💀 BUGS 💀

No known bugs. periodt. we love a clean record 👑

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Jorge Mora (mora@netapp.com) — thank you for your service, king 🎀

and that's the whole page bestie!! brought to you by NFStest 3.2, dated 21 March 2023 — iykyk, now go compare some addresses 💖✨🦋

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