[New-bugs-announce] [issue22941] IPv4Interface arithmetic changes subnet mask

[Søren Løvborg]

New submission from Søren Løvborg:

Addition and subtraction of integers are documented for ipaddress.IPv4Address and ipaddress.IPv6Address, but also work for IPv4Interface and IPv6Interface (though the only documentation of this is a brief mention that the Interface classes inherit from the respective Address classes). That's good.

The problem is that adding/subtracting an integer to an Interface object changes the subnet mask (to max_prefixlen), something which is 1) not documented and 2) not the least surprising result.

>>> import ipaddress
>>> ipaddress.IPv4Interface('10.0.0.1/8') + 1
IPv4Interface('10.0.0.2/32')
>>> ipaddress.IPv6Interface('fd00::1/64') + 1
IPv6Interface('fd00::2/128')

Changing this breaks backwards compatibility; though since the ipaddress module was provisional until recently and the behavior is undocumented, I hope it's not too late to change.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 231670
nosy: kwi.dk
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: IPv4Interface arithmetic changes subnet mask
type: behavior

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