The ipaddress module accepts IPv6 addresses if the IPv4 address is formatted as an octal number, but http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986#section-3.2.2 doesn't allow leading zeroes in the IPv4 address.

This is the current behaviour (in 3.4.1):

>>> ipaddress.ip_address("::1.0.0.00")
IPv6Address('::100:0')

Expected:

>>> ipaddress.ip_address("::1.0.0.00")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "3.4.1/lib/python3.4/ipaddress.py", line 54, in ip_address
    address)
ValueError: '::1.0.0.00' does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address

Because I didn't know it better, I first tried to patch the backport but this might be still applicable the official code: https://github.com/phihag/ipaddress/pull/12

The patch adds an optional keyword which only accepts decimal numbers.

This is what I get now on 3.11:


>>> ipaddress.ip_address("::1.0.0.00")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "C:\Users\User\src\cpython\Lib\ipaddress.py", line 54, in ip_address
    raise ValueError('%r does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address' %
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ValueError: '::1.0.0.00' does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address