[Tutor] need a way to get my own ip address

[jay]

Well that will return the reverse lookup of the current hostname assigned to
your system.  Is this a Windows or Linux/Unix system?  What does this
return?

print socket.gethostname()
print socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())

j

On Jan 2, 2008 8:45 AM, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Jay,
> in IDLE, this gave me 127.0.0.1
> is there a way to get my assigned ip instead of the localhost one?
> thanks
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 8:31 AM, jay < titleistfour at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > You could perhaps use this method
> >
> > import socket
> > myIP = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[2]
> >
> > Jay
> >
> > On Jan 2, 2008 8:25 AM, shawn bright < nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > i am looking for an easy way to get my own ip address as a string from
> > > python.
> > > I am using Ubuntu Linux if that makes any difference.
> > > thanks !
> > >
> > > shawn
> > >
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