Currently, ipaddress._BaseNetwork (and by extension, ipaddress.IPv4Network and ipaddress.IPv6Network) does not have a __len__ method, it only has num_addresses. This makes the following code not work:
random.choice(ipaddress.ip_network('6.0.0.0/8')) Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "/home/nyuszika7h/.pyenv/versions/3.10.0/lib/python3.10/random.py", line 378, in choice return seq[self._randbelow(len(seq))] TypeError: object of type 'IPv4Network' has no len()
The workaround is a bit ugly:
(network := ipaddress.ip_network('6.0.0.0/8'))[random.randrange(network.num_addresses)] IPv4Address('6.60.184.142')
With a custom subclass, all works well:
class MyIPv4Network(ipaddress.IPv4Network): ... def __len__(self): ... return self.num_addresses ... random.choice(MyIPv4Network('6.0.0.0/8')) IPv4Address('6.40.110.63')