In the ipaddress module, a convenient class is used to represent an interface's IP configuration in detail. The IPv6 interface class lets you extract the IPv6Address and IPv6Network objects from a single instance:

>>> eth0 = ipaddress.IPv6Interface('2001:db8::/48')
 >>> eth0.ip
 IPv6Address('2001:db8::')
 >>> eth0.with_prefixlen
 '2001:db8::/48'
 >>> eth0.with_netmask
 '2001:db8::/ffff:ffff:ffff::'
 >>> eth0.network
 IPv6Network('2001:db8::/48')
 >>> eth0.is_private
 True
 >>> eth0.is_reserved
 False
 >>> eth0.is_multicast
 False
 >>> eth0.is_link_local
 False
 >>> eth0.is_global
 False

As you can see, a network interface, eth0, with the IPv6Address class has been defined. It has some interesting properties, such as IP and network address. In the same way as with the network objects, you can check whether the address is private, reserved, multicast, link_local, or global.

Also, we can work with the ip_interface method to extract the IP address and network:

>>> intf = ipaddress.ip_interface("2001:db8::/48")
 >>> intf.ip
 IPv6Address('2001:db8::')
 >>> intf.network
 IPv6Network('2001:db8::/48')