[PyQt] QHostAddress is missing a method

[Phil Thompson]

On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:57:53 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
<detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
> On Dienstag, 26. Juli 2011, Phil Thompson wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 Jul 2011 18:11:04 +0200, Detlev Offenbach
>> 
>> <detlev at die-offenbachs.de> wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> > 
>> > I think the QHostAddress mappings are missing the method
>> 
>> "toIPv6Address".
>> 
>> > If I
>> > am right, would it be possible to add it?
>> 
>> What's the most useful way to represent it? Would anything be better
than
>> the obvious 16 byte string?
>> 
>> Phil
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> 
> The Qt docs say:
> 
> Returns the IPv6 address as a Q_IPV6ADDR structure. The structure
consists
> of 
> 16 unsigned characters.
> 
> So in Python it should return a list (or tuple if it should be
immutable)
> of 
> 16 integers.

Are you suggesting a list because that is the closest equivalent in
Python? If so I would disagree.

Or are you suggesting a list because of how you want to use the value?

Phil