Python - Sockets set SO_BROADCAST for one sending

Question

I have a sender class for sending data using sockets:

import socket as s

class Sender:
    def __init__(self):
        self.socket = s.socket(s.AF_INET, s.SOCK_DGRAM)
        self.socket.setsockopt(s.SOL_SOCKET, s.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)

    def send(self, msg, addr):
        self.socket.sendto(msg, addr)

And I can create an instance of Sender to send data:

sender = Sender()
sender.send("Message example", (ip, port))

The problem is that the sender might want to send a broadcast to 255.255.255.255.

Normally for broadcasts I do:

self.socket.setsockopt(s.SOL_SOCKET, s.SO_BROADCAST, 1)

The reason this doesn't work here is because my sender might send broadcasts or send messages to ips.

How would I set SO_BROADCAST only when a broadcast is sent without making separate sender classes and instances: Sender, BroadcastSender?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

NEW ANSWER

As @user207421 said:

Why? Setting it doesn't prevent you from unicasting. Just set it on the socket when you open it. Then you can both unicast and broadcast.

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OLD ANSWER

To allow your socket to send messages to 255.255.255.255 (broadcast) you can do something like this...

Inside Sender class:

def send(self, msg, addr):
    if addr[0] == "255.255.255.255": self.socket.setsockopt(s.SOL_SOCKET, s.SO_BROADCAST, 1)
    self.socket.sendto(msg, addr)
    if addr[0] == "255.255.255.255": self.socket.setsockopt(s.SOL_SOCKET, s.SO_BROADCAST, 0)