[Tutor] Re: Create list of IPs

[Roel Schroeven]

Ralfas Jegorovas wrote:
> I am wondering how I would go about making a list of IPs between two set
> IPs.

# First, list2str can be written shorter
.def list2str(lst):
.    return '.'.join(map(str, lst))

# The inverse of that is also needed
.def str2list(s):
.    return map(int, s.split('.'))

# Note that an IP address can also be represented as an integer
.def lst2int(lst):
.    return (lst[0] << 24) | (lst[1] << 16) | (lst[2] << 8) | lst[3]

# Reverse:
.def lst2int(ip_int):
.    return map(int, [ip_int >> 24,
.                     (ip_int >> 16) & 0xff,
.                     (ip_int >> 8) & 0xff,
.                      ip_int & 0xff])

# Once the IP addresses are converted to integers, we can simply
# loop from the first to the second
.def generate_iplist(minip, maxip):
.    iplist = []
.    minip_int = lst2int(str2list(minip))
.    maxip_int = lst2int(str2list(maxip))
.    for ip in range(minip_int, maxip_int+1):
.        iplist.append(list2str(int2lst(ip)))
.    return iplist

# Example:
.>>> if __name__ == '__main__':
.    for ip in generate_iplist('1.0.0.250', '1.0.1.5'):
.        print ip
1.0.0.250
1.0.0.251
1.0.0.252
1.0.0.253
1.0.0.254
1.0.0.255
1.0.1.0
1.0.1.1
1.0.1.2
1.0.1.3
1.0.1.4
1.0.1.5

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"Codito ergo sum"
Roel Schroeven