Y.A.P.I.M. - Yet Another Python IP Module

Well, it seems every sysadmin using Python has to create his or her own IP address module somewhere along their journey towards nirvana. It would appear to be a vertiable rite of passage ;-)

Here is a list I'm compiling over time of all the modules I've encountered that provide a subset of the functionality available in netaddr :-

Created	Project	Python Package Index	Homepage
2000-03-17	ipaddr	n/a (previously on Vaults of Parnassus)	ftp://ftp.ingate.com/pub/ipaddr/
(circa) 2002-03-11	IPy	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/IPy/	http://software.inl.fr/trac/trac.cgi/wiki/IPy
2006-01-29	NetCIDR	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/NetCIDR/	deprecated, see http://netaddr.googlecode.com/
unknown	IPv4_Utils	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/IPv4_Utils/	http://users.forthnet.gr/ath/chrisgeorgiou/python/
2005-10-17	iplib	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/iplib/	http://erlug.linux.it/~da/soft/iplib/
2007-07-27	pynet	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pynet/	http://www.pennington.net/py/pynet/
2008-01-28	ipcalc	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipcalc/	http://tehmaze.com/code/python/ipcalc/
2008-07-07	netaddr	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/netaddr/	http://netaddr.googlecode.com/
2008-09-24	ipaddr-py	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ipaddr/	http://ipaddr-py.googlecode.com/
2008-11-16	python-iptools	n/a	http://code.google.com/p/python-iptools/
2009-02-23	IPV4 (uppercase 'V')	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/IPV4/	http://www.albar.fr/IPV4_html/index.html
2009-05-23	wadofstuff-ip (requires IPy)	http://pypi.python.org/pypi/wadofstuff-ip/1.0.0	http://code.google.com/p/wadofstuff/

There are also some interesting recipes in the Python Cookbook on ASPN that are worth a look :-

Recipe 466298: "IPv4 address set type" by Heiko Wundram
Recipe 66517: "IP address conversion functions with the builtin socket module" by Alex Martelli (pay attention to comments about endian bug!)

Other projects I've come across re-inventing our infamous wheel :-

zenoss - http://www.zenoss.com/
scapy - http://www.secdev.org/projects/scapy/

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