lstn/ip6words

Utility to convert IPv6 addresses to and from a user friendly word based format

ip6words

Converts IPv6 addresses to and from a user friendly format using words.

Usage

# Script entry point "ip6words" can be used instead of manually launching the script through python if the package was installed.
$ ip6words :: 
the8

$ ip6words -h
Usage:
        python ip6words.py ([-h] | [-d] | [-u] | [-e]) (<ip6words-address-to-convert> | <ipv6-to-convert>)
         [-h] ~ This dialog
         [-u] ~ The usage dialog
         [-d] ~ Delete the dilled (pickled) word list in order to regenerate it before executing
		 [-e] ~ Explode the results instead of compressing them

Install

pip install ip6words

Requirements

• Python 3.3+ (NOT tested at all on Python 2)
• nltk _{(will download these packages on first run that doesn't use dill, download them yourself beforehand if you'd like to choose the download directory)}

• words - _{optional ~ see note #3}
• brown - _{optional ~ see note #3}
• abc - _{optional ~ see note #3}
• inaugural - _{optional ~ see note #3}
• genesis - _{optional ~ see note #3}

• dill

Notes

1. This is designed to have the same words always point to the same IP and vice versa. The only thing that would alter this would be a change in the base nltk data, causing a shift in the frequency of words.
2. Included with this tool is a dilled (or pickled) word list. If you wish to re-generate that dill you must delete the file or run using the [-d] argument.
3. In practice, this means you will actually never have to download the nltk packages yourself if you never use the [-d] argument and thus always load the wordlist from the dill.