In <roy-7c4e8a.13361716122...@news.panix.com> Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes:
> Having done quite a bit of IPv6 work, my opinion here is that you're
> trying to do The Wrong Thing.
> What you want is an IPv6 class which represents an address in some
> canonical form. It would have constructors which accept any of the
> RFC-2373 defined formats. It would also have string formatting methods
> to convert the internal form into any of these formats.
> Then, instead of attempting to regex your way directly from one string
> representation to another, you would do something like:
> addr_string = "FEDC:BA98:7654:3210:FEDC:BA98:7654:321"
> print IPv6(addr_string).to_short_form()
This does sound like a more robust solution. I'll give it some thought.
Thanks Roy!
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