From 96ee7f4701f302bb1f551944e34877306ce7b240 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Bender <joel@carrickbender.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2017 00:42:06 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] sample application for testing address strings

---
 samples/Address.py | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 39 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 samples/Address.py

diff --git a/samples/Address.py b/samples/Address.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..736557d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/samples/Address.py
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+#!/bin/bash python
+
+"""
+This simple application takes a string form of a BACnet address from the
+command line and attempts to interpret it.
+"""
+
+import sys
+
+from bacpypes.consolelogging import ArgumentParser
+from bacpypes.pdu import Address
+
+# build a parser for the command line arguments
+parser = ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+parser.add_argument("address",
+    help="address to interpret",
+    )
+
+# parse the command line arguments
+args = parser.parse_args()
+
+# try to interpret the address
+try:
+    addr = Address(args.address)
+except Exception as err:
+    print(err)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+# print the string form
+print(addr)
+
+# print the various components
+for attr in [
+        'addrType', 'addrNet', 'addrAddr', 'addrLen',   # universal
+        'addrTuple', 'addrBroadcastTuple',              # IPv4
+    ]:
+    if hasattr(addr, attr):
+        print("%s: %r" % (attr, getattr(addr, attr)))
+