[Tutor] need advice on streamlining code...

[Eric L. Howard]

The following block of code works, and provides the necessary output I'm
looking for...but I have a feeling that it's working through sheer brute
force and could be better:

    insideipgrepfd = os.popen("grep ifconfig_fxp0 /etc/rc.conf")
    insideipgrep = insideipgrepfd.readlines()
    insideipfield, insideip = string.split(string.strip(insideipgrep[0]), "=")
    insideipsplit = string.split(insideip, " ")
    insideipquads = string.split(insideipsplit[1], ".")
    insidemaskquads = string.split(insideipsplit[4], ".")

the line in /etc/rc.conf looks like:

ifconfig_fxp0="inet 172.31.2.100 netmask 255.255.255.0"

Any and all thoughts/pointers are appreciated.

    ~elh

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