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A pure Python network address representation and manipulation library.

netaddr provides a Pythonic way of working with:

  - IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and subnets
  - MAC addresses, OUI and IAB identifiers, IEEE EUI-64 identifiers
  - Arbitrary (non-aligned) IP address ranges and IP address sets
  - Various non-CIDR IP range formats such as nmap and glob-style formats

Included are routines for:

  - Generating, sorting and summarizing IP addresses and networks
  - Performing easy conversions between address notations and formats
  - Detecting, parsing and formatting network address representations
  - Performing set-based operations on groups of IP addresses and subnets
  - Working with arbitrary IP address ranges and formats
  - Accessing OUI and IAB organisational information published by IEEE
  - Accessing IP address and block information published by IANA

API documentation for the latest release is available here:

  https://pythonhosted.org/netaddr/

WWW: https://github.com/drkjam/netaddr/