[Python-Dev] IPv6

[Tim Peters]

[Guido van Rossum]
> What's out IPv6 story?

Ah!  If that's version 6 of the Integer-Point alternative to Floating-Point,
I've got it covered.  Otherwise my guess is we have no story at all.

> I recall that someone once sent me patches, but they didn't work for me.

Try recompiling with -DLONG_BIT=33.

> Is it time to try again?  In certain circles IPv6 support in Python
> would be enough to switch programming languages... :-)

Floating-point is *that* bad?!

ever-helpful-ly y'rs  - tim