> I am worried that Python is slowly turning into Java. Instead of simple text/string for everything, now Class for everything, with nauty weird ill-defined Exc

> I am worried that Python is slowly turning into Java. Instead of simple text/string for everything, now Class for everything, with nauty weird ill-defined Exceptions. The example your are pointing out is for the module ipaddress which is for inspecting and manipulating ip addresses. It's not that Python now requires you to use ipaddress objects in place of strings for sockets.