>To a non-specialist, "the network address" is ambiguous. There are many >addresses in a network, and none of them are the entire network. It's >like saying, given a list [2, 4, 8, 12], what's "the list item"?
A "network address" is an IP address and mask, but I understand your confusion - we're mixing terminology from disperate domains. In my postings, I have tried to refer to Network (a containter) and Address (an item). -- Andrew McNamara, Senior Developer, Object Craft http://www.object-craft.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
