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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > >
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