Functional schmunctional...

Hendrik van Rooyen mail at microcorp.co.za
Thu Feb 12 01:18:54 EST 2009


"Steve Holden" <ste....nweb.com> wrote:

> Jeez, doesn't anyone read the fine manual any more? I hope this was just
> an academic exercise.
> 
> >>> socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack("!l", 1000000000))
> '59.154.202.0'
> >>>
> 
> Holden's rule: when it looks simple enough to be worth including in the
> standard library it may well already *be* in the standard library.

Aaah! But how do you find it, if you don't already know
where it lives and what it's called ?

- Hendrik





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