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

[shawn bright]

Thanks, Jay,
just what i was looking for. Works great.

shawn

On Jan 2, 2008 9:10 AM, jay <titleistfour at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well that is what I normally use, but I always have my hostname setup
> properly.  In your case, that socket call won't work.  You could try this
> link I found on google
>
> http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/439094
>
> jay
>
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 9:00 AM, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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