def ip_address(address):
    """Take an IP string/int and return an object of the correct type.

    Args:
        address: A string or integer, the IP address.  Either IPv4 or
          IPv6 addresses may be supplied; integers less than 2**32 will
          be considered to be IPv4 by default.

    Returns:
        An IPv4Address or IPv6Address object.

    Raises:
        ValueError: if the *address* passed isn't either a v4 or a v6
          address

    """
    try:
        return IPv4Address(address)
    except (AddressValueError, NetmaskValueError):
        pass

    try:
        return IPv6Address(address)
    except (AddressValueError, NetmaskValueError):
        pass

    if isinstance(address, bytes):
        raise AddressValueError(
            '%r does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address. '
            'Did you pass in a bytes (str in Python 2) instead of'
            ' a unicode object?' % address)

    raise ValueError('%r does not appear to be an IPv4 or IPv6 address' %
                     address)
Take an IP string/int and return an object of the correct type.

    Args:
        address: A string or integer, the IP address.  Either IPv4 or
          IPv6 addresses may be supplied; integers less than 2**32 will
          be considered to be IPv4 by default.

    Returns:
        An IPv4Address or IPv6Address object.

    Raises:
        ValueError: if the *address* passed isn't either a v4 or a v6
          address