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

[shawn bright]

It returns this
('hostname', [], ['127.0.1.1'])
i am running this on a linux system
thanks

On Jan 2, 2008 8:50 AM, jay <titleistfour at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well that will return the reverse lookup of the current hostname assigned
> to your system.  Is this a Windows or Linux/Unix system?  What does this
> return?
>
> print socket.gethostname()
> print socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname ())
>
> j
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 8:45 AM, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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