[Tutor] Finding all IP addresses associated with a host
Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com
Fri Apr 10 01:25:24 CEST 2009
Scott Newton wrote:
> I'm very new to python, and my google-fu has failed to locate an answer
> to the following:
>
> How can I find all of the (ipv4) addresses that are currently up on a host?
In google I searched for "python what's my ip" and about the fourth
entry down found a link that led me to
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/netifaces/0.3
How far does that get you?
HTH,
Emile
>
> I realize I can call ifconfig and then munge the output with awk, but
> that seems messy, and before I tried that I though I would ask around.
>
> To give a bit more information, I'm writing a script that will use the
> ip address assigned to the wifi interface to determine location (this is
> on a Mac) and then mount network drives appropriate to the location. If
> anyone has a better idea how to do this, I'd be happy to hear them.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Scott Newton
>
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