Oleksandr Pavliuk added the comment:
@maxmouchet, thank you for creating the issue.
For me it makes sense, and RFC 4291 calls such IPv6 text representation
approach as "more convenient".
I'll try to fix this, if you don't mind.
P.S.: Sorry for providing PR before I asked.
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Change by Oleksandr Pavliuk :
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keywords: +patch
nosy: +opavlyuk
nosy_count: 1.0 -> 2.0
pull_requests: +27610
stage: -> patch review
pull_request: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/29345
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Python tracker
New submission from Maxime Mouchet :
Python supports IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses as defined by RFC 4038:
"the IPv6 address :::x.y.z.w represents the IPv4 address x.y.z.w.”
The current behavior is as follows:
from ipaddress import ip_address
addr = ip_address(':::8.8.4.4') #
