Re: Determine ip address

[rbt]

codecraig wrote:
hi,
   how can i use python to figure the ip address of the machine which
the python script is running on?  I dont mean like 127.0.0.1....but i
want the external IP address (such as ipconfig on windows displays).
any ideas??
THanks
To get the public IP (like when you're behind a wirless router, etc) you 
may try doing something like this:

import urllib
import re
import time
ip_search = re.compile ('\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}')
try:
    f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.ipchicken.com";)
    data = f.read()
    f.close()
    current_ip = ip_search.findall(data)
    if current_ip:
        print current_ip
        time.sleep(3)
except Exception:
    pass
HTH,
rbt
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