On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:00:52 -0500, Joe Riopel wrote: > On Nov 21, 2007 10:15 AM, Gilles Ganault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I know about socket.gethostbyname, but this relies on what's in >> /etc/hosts, and I'd rather have a more independent solution. > > I might be missing something in your question, but on a Windows XP > machine, I can get the IP address of my machine using: >>>> from socket import gethostname, gethostbyname >>>> gethostbyname(gethostname()) > '192.168.0.11' >>>>
Just out of curiosity, what part of the Original Poster's comment that he already knew about socket.gethostbyname did you not understand? -- Steven who seems to be making a lot of snarky comments lately. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
