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authorJoel Croteau <jcroteau@gmail.com>2019-03-30 07:53:48 -0700
committerNick Coghlan <ncoghlan@gmail.com>2019-03-31 00:53:48 +1000
commite653d4d8e820a7a004ad399530af0135b45db27a (patch)
tree140ff14e2dccd2daf4a7e7b28a6db743f6347c6d
parentddbb978e1065dde21d1662386b26ded359f4b16e (diff)
downloadcpython-git-e653d4d8e820a7a004ad399530af0135b45db27a.tar.gz
bpo-36384: Remove check for leading zeroes in IPv4 addresses (GH-12577)
Stop rejecting IPv4 octets with leading zeroes as ambiguously octal. Plenty of other tools generate decimal IPv4 octets with leading zeroes, so keeping this check hurts interoperability. Patch by Joel Croteau.
-rw-r--r--Lib/ipaddress.py6
-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py12
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-27-02-09-22.bpo-36385.we2F45.rst1
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/ipaddress.py b/Lib/ipaddress.py
index 15507d61de..a88cf3d0b7 100644
--- a/Lib/ipaddress.py
+++ b/Lib/ipaddress.py
@@ -1165,12 +1165,6 @@ class _BaseV4:
raise ValueError(msg % octet_str)
# Convert to integer (we know digits are legal)
octet_int = int(octet_str, 10)
- # Any octets that look like they *might* be written in octal,
- # and which don't look exactly the same in both octal and
- # decimal are rejected as ambiguous
- if octet_int > 7 and octet_str[0] == '0':
- msg = "Ambiguous (octal/decimal) value in %r not permitted"
- raise ValueError(msg % octet_str)
if octet_int > 255:
raise ValueError("Octet %d (> 255) not permitted" % octet_int)
return octet_int
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py b/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
index 0e0753f34c..53f6f12844 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_ipaddress.py
@@ -92,11 +92,14 @@ class CommonTestMixin:
y = pickle.loads(pickle.dumps(x, proto))
self.assertEqual(y, x)
+
class CommonTestMixin_v4(CommonTestMixin):
def test_leading_zeros(self):
self.assertInstancesEqual("000.000.000.000", "0.0.0.0")
self.assertInstancesEqual("192.168.000.001", "192.168.0.1")
+ self.assertInstancesEqual("016.016.016.016", "16.16.16.16")
+ self.assertInstancesEqual("001.000.008.016", "1.0.8.16")
def test_int(self):
self.assertInstancesEqual(0, "0.0.0.0")
@@ -229,15 +232,6 @@ class AddressTestCase_v4(BaseTestCase, CommonTestMixin_v4):
assertBadOctet("1.2.3.4::", "4::")
assertBadOctet("1.a.2.3", "a")
- def test_octal_decimal_ambiguity(self):
- def assertBadOctet(addr, octet):
- msg = "Ambiguous (octal/decimal) value in %r not permitted in %r"
- with self.assertAddressError(re.escape(msg % (octet, addr))):
- ipaddress.IPv4Address(addr)
-
- assertBadOctet("016.016.016.016", "016")
- assertBadOctet("001.000.008.016", "008")
-
def test_octet_length(self):
def assertBadOctet(addr, octet):
msg = "At most 3 characters permitted in %r in %r"
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-27-02-09-22.bpo-36385.we2F45.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-27-02-09-22.bpo-36385.we2F45.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..26f6dd7d5f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Library/2019-03-27-02-09-22.bpo-36385.we2F45.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Stop rejecting IPv4 octets for being ambiguously octal. Leading zeros are ignored, and no longer are assumed to specify octal octets. Octets are always decimal numbers. Octets must still be no more than three digits, including leading zeroes.