[Tutor] need a way to get my own ip address

[shawn bright]

Thanks, Jay,
in IDLE, this gave me 127.0.0.1
is there a way to get my assigned ip instead of the localhost one?
thanks

On Jan 2, 2008 8:31 AM, jay <titleistfour at gmail.com> wrote:

> You could perhaps use this method
>
> import socket
> myIP = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[2]
>
> Jay
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 8:25 AM, shawn bright < nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > i am looking for an easy way to get my own ip address as a string from
> > python.
> > I am using Ubuntu Linux if that makes any difference.
> > thanks !
> >
> > shawn
> >
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