How to get IP address

Wayne Pierce wayne at mishre.com
Sat Mar 1 14:33:27 EST 2003


Nagy László Zsolt <nagylzs at freemail.hu> wrote in message news:<mailman.1046487302.8558.python-list at python.org>...
> I'm trying to get all inet addresses of a machine in python. Is there a 
> way to do it using
> the standard library? I found a solution on Google and in Python 
> CookBook but they
> are platform dependent. I need a platform-independent solution. Thank 
> you in advance.
> 
>   Laci 1.0

How about this?  I only have one IP on my box so I do not know if this
will work for you..

socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())

You could probably use the loopback as the parameter, like:

socket.gethostbyaddr('localhost')

Both of these will return a tuple in the form of (hostname, aliaslist,
ipaddrlist).  This is in 7.2 of the Python docs if you need to check
other variations.

-W




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