ip address?

[maximilianscherr]

thanks, haven't tried it yet, but perhaps will work, and i only have 
two ips i think one for the lan and one for the net, so i just tell 
it if not "192.168.0.10" right?

--- In python-list at y..., "Joshua Muskovitz" <joshm at t...> wrote:
> > thanks, but i think this also won't tell me my internet address, 
at
> > least when i tried it just got my lan ip which is just 192.0.0.10 
all
> > the time.
> 
> In a DOS window, run winipcfg (win98) or ipconfig /all (win2k) and 
see what
> it tells you.  If you have *multiple* IP addresses (one for your 
dial-up and
> one for your lan, maybe?), then socket.gethostname() will return 
*one* of
> them, but it could be either of them.  This is one of the nastier 
parts of
> TCP, and has nothing to do with Python.
> 
> At the python command line, try this:
> 
> import socket
> hostname = socket.gethostname()
> addresses = socket.getaddrinfo(hostname, None)
> ips = [x[4][0] for x in addresses]
> 
> This should give you all of the IP addresses for your machine.  
It's your
> problem to figure out which one is for your dialup provider.  Don't 
assume
> it'll always be the same index into this list.
> 
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