Message3692

The inet_ntoa and inet_aton functions in socket are used to "useful when
conversing with a program that uses the standard C library and needs
objects of type struct in_addr, which is the C type for the 32-bit
packed binary this function returns."

http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.2/lib/module-socket.html

C in_addr structures are not usable by java socket libraries, and thus
not usable from jython.

Perhaps the submitter can illustrate a use case where these functions
are needed? If a use case is presented, I will provide the functions.