Close #15559: Implementing __index__ creates a nasty interaction with the bytes constructor. At least for 3.3, ipaddress objects must now be explicitly converted with int() and thus can't be passed directly to the hex() builtin.
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py b/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
index 619fa44..a44fa7f 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 import unittest
 import re
 import contextlib
+import operator
 import ipaddress
 
 class BaseTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
@@ -72,6 +73,14 @@
         with self.assertAddressError(re.escape(repr("1.0"))):
             self.factory(1.0)
 
+    def test_not_an_index_issue15559(self):
+        # Implementing __index__ makes for a very nasty interaction with the
+        # bytes constructor. Thus, we disallow implicit use as an integer
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, operator.index, self.factory(1))
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, hex, self.factory(1))
+        self.assertRaises(TypeError, bytes, self.factory(1))
+
+
 class CommonTestMixin_v4(CommonTestMixin):
 
     def test_leading_zeros(self):
@@ -599,7 +608,6 @@
         self.assertEqual(first, last)
         self.assertEqual(128, ipaddress._count_righthand_zero_bits(0, 128))
         self.assertEqual("IPv4Network('1.2.3.0/24')", repr(self.ipv4_network))
-        self.assertEqual('0x1020318', hex(self.ipv4_network))
 
     def testMissingAddressVersion(self):
         class Broken(ipaddress._BaseAddress):
@@ -1545,13 +1553,6 @@
         self.assertEqual(42540616829182469433547762482097946625,
                          int(self.ipv6_address))
 
-    def testHexRepresentation(self):
-        self.assertEqual(hex(0x1020304),
-                         hex(self.ipv4_address))
-
-        self.assertEqual(hex(0x20010658022ACAFE0200000000000001),
-                         hex(self.ipv6_address))
-
     def testForceVersion(self):
         self.assertEqual(ipaddress.ip_network(1).version, 4)
         self.assertEqual(ipaddress.IPv6Network(1).version, 6)