check if an IP is within a range of CIDR in Python

Question

I know there are some similar questions up here, but they mostly either want to find the range itself (which uses some libraries, like the example that stackoverflow says is

Answer 1

In Python 3.3 and later, you should be using the ipaddress module.

from ipaddress import ip_network, ip_address

net = ip_network("1.1.0.0/16")
print(ip_address("1.1.2.2") in net)    # True