hostid?

[Noah]

"Lance" <lbrannma at cablespeed.com> wrote in message news:<ur2ok51jlan72f at corp.supernews.com>...
> I'd like to retrieve a computer's hostid. Does anyone know how to do this? 
> Lance

Do you mean hostname? If yes, then you do this:

    import socket
    print socket.gethostname()

Yours,
Noah