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+Examples of the functionality of the ipaddr library.
+
+A lot of the functionality of the IPv4 class is derived from the BaseIP class. The same is true for the IPv6 class. that means that all of the functionality you see here is exactly the same when dealing with IPv6 addresses.
+
+=== IPv4 ===
+_using ipaddr with IPv4 addresses_
+
+Start by creating your address object.
+You can create an IPv4 object with:
+
+netmask
+{{{
+>>> addr = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.1/255.255.255.0')
+>>> addr
+IPv4('1.1.1.1/24')
+}}}
+
+hostmask
+{{{
+>>> addr = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.1/0.0.0.255')
+>>> addr
+IPv4('1.1.1.1/24')
+}}}
+
+prefix length 
+{{{
+>>> addr = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.1/24')
+>>> addr
+IPv4('1.1.1.1/24')
+}}}
+
+nothing (nothing implies a /32 netmask)
+{{{
+>>> addr = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.1')
+>>> addr
+IPv4('1.1.1.1/32')
+}}}
+
+Many of the standard Python operations are supported
+{{{
+# comparisons
+>>> ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.1') == ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.2')
+False
+>>> ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.1') < ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.2')
+True
+
+# list inclusion
+>>> a = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.1')
+>>> b = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.2')
+>>> c = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.3')
+>>> a in [a, b, c]
+True
+
+# inclusion
+>>> ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.1') in ipaddr.IPv4("1.0.0.0/8")
+True
+
+# sorting
+>>> a = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.10')
+>>> b = ipaddr.IPv4('1.10.1.10')
+>>> c = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.10.10')
+>>> d = ipaddr.IPv4('1.1.1.1')
+>>> sorted([a, b, c, d])
+[IPv4('1.1.1.1/32'), IPv4('1.1.1.10/32'), IPv4('1.1.10.10/32'), IPv4('1.10.1.10/32')]
+
+# str
+>>> str(ipaddr.IP('1.2.3.4'))
+'1.2.3.4/32'
+
+# int/hex. pending submission of issue 11862. http://codereview.appspot.com/11862/show
+>>> int(ipaddr.IP('1.2.3.4'))
+16909060
+>>> hex(ipaddr.IP('1.2.3.4'))
+'0x1020304'
+}}}
+
+Additionally, there are quite a few network-specific features available to ipaddr.
+{{{
+>>> ipaddr.IPv4('10.0.0.0/8').Supernet()
+IPv4('10.0.0.0/7')
+
+>>> ipaddr.IPv4('10.0.0.0/8').Subnet()
+[IPv4('10.0.0.0/9'), IPv4('10.128.0.0/9')]
+
+>>> ipaddr.IPv4('10.0.0.0/8').Subnet(prefixlen_diff=2) # this returns networks with a prefix length of /10
+[IPv4('10.0.0.0/10'), IPv4('10.64.0.0/10'), 
+ IPv4('10.128.0.0/10'), IPv4('10.192.0.0/10')]
+
+# AddressExclude removes an address from a superblock.
+>>> ipaddr.IPv4('10.0.0.0/24').AddressExclude(ipaddr.IPv4('10.0.0.0/32'))
+[IPv4('10.0.0.1/32'), IPv4('10.0.0.2/31'), 
+ IPv4('10.0.0.4/30'), IPv4('10.0.0.8/29'),
+ IPv4('10.0.0.16/28'), IPv4('10.0.0.32/27'), 
+ IPv4('10.0.0.64/26'), IPv4('10.0.0.128/25')]
+
+}}}
+
+As always, consult your local help(ipaddr) pydoc documentation with questions.
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