Patch by Jp Calderone:
- The socket module now provides the functions inet_pton and inet_ntop
for converting between string and packed representation of IP addresses.
See SF patch #658327.
This still needs a bit of work in the doc area, because it is not
available on all platforms (especially not on Windows).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d666762..8c1d7c5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -383,6 +383,10 @@
zlib test suite using the unittest module. (SF bug #640230 and
patch #678531.)
+- The socket module now provides the functions inet_pton and inet_ntop
+ for converting between string and packed representation of IP addresses.
+ See SF patch #658327.
+
- Added an itertools module containing high speed, memory efficient
looping constructs inspired by tools from Haskell and SML.