ipaddress.IPv4Interface only accept unicoded string as input parameter. But some old python's netifaces module returns a str. If we use the IPs returned from netifaces, ipaddress will report the following error:
>>> import ipaddress
>>> ipaddress.IPv4Interface('10.10.10.10/24')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaddress.py", line 1483, in _init_
IPv4Address._init_(self, address)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaddress.py", line 1391, in _init_
self._check_packed_address(address, 4)
File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ipaddress.py", line 554, in _check_packed_address
expected_len, self._version))
ipaddress.AddressValueError: '10.10.10.10/24' (len 14 != 4) is not permitted as an IPv4 address. Did you pass in a bytes (str in Python 2) instead of a unicode object?
>>> ipaddress.IPv4Interface(u'10.10.10.10/24')
IPv4Interface(u'10.10.10.10/24')
Python 2.7.5 produces non-unicoded str
[root@localhost os-xenapi]# python
{color:red}Python 2.7.5 {color}(default, Aug 4 2017, 00:39:18)
[GCC 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-16)] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import netifaces
>>> netifaces.
{color:
python 2.7.12 produces unicoded string
stack@DevStackO
{color:red}Python 2.7.12{color} (default, Nov 20 2017, 18:23:56)
[GCC 5.4.0 20160609] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> eth='eth2'
>>> netifaces.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
NameError: name 'netifaces' is not defined
>>> import netifaces
>>> netifaces.
[]
>>> netifaces.
[{'broadcast': u'10.71.199.255', 'netmask': u'255.255.248.0', 'addr': {color:
>>>