single-address network, with the network address being *address* and
the mask being ``/128``.
- 3. An integer packed into a :class:`bytes` object of length 16, bit-endian.
+ 3. An integer packed into a :class:`bytes` object of length 16, big-endian.
The interpretation is similar to an integer *address*.
+ 4. A two-tuple of an address description and a netmask, where the address
+ description is either a string, a 128-bits integer, a 16-bytes packed
+ integer, or an existing IPv4Address object; and the netmask is an
+ integer representing the prefix length.
+
An :exc:`AddressValueError` is raised if *address* is not a valid IPv6
address. A :exc:`NetmaskValueError` is raised if the mask is not valid for
an IPv6 address.