crunching ip addresses

[perfringo]

From buran's answer one could easily conclude that in order to get sorted unique ip addresses one should first uniquify and then sort. As sorted() takes any iterable and returns list one can just apply it to set and get sorted list:

>>> import ipaddress
>>> spam = [ipaddress.ip_address('192.168.0.1'), ipaddress.ip_address('192.168.0.2'), ipaddress.ip_address('192.168.0.1')]
>>> sorted(set(spam))
[IPv4Address('192.168.0.1'), IPv4Address('192.168.0.2')]

As far as conversion goes:

from Python 3.9 there is also IPv4Address.__format__(fmt) for converting into other types (string, binary, hex).

Similarly to str() there is also possibility to convert to integer with int()