[Tutor] Detecting my own IP address?

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jun 05, 2005, Lee Harr wrote:
>>At present, the only thing I can think of is to redirect the
>>output of 'ifconfig' into a temporary file, then read it back in and use
>>Python and regular expressions to try and extract the IP info from that.

Why go to a temporary file when you can open a pipe?

	import os
	fh = os.popen('ifconfig') #...

The advantage of parsing ifconfig output instead of using socket calls is
that it allows you to discriminate between multiple interfaces (e.g. most
of our dual hosted machines have the primary interface on the private
address which probably isn't what is required).

One disadvantage of parsing ifconfig is that output varies depending on the
operating system.

Bill
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