On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 05:49:07 +1000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: : You can run 'ifconfig' without being root, so there must be a way. At : very worst, parse ifconfig's output.
Of course, but I am not sure that's simpler than the manual solution. Especially since there is more than one version of ifconfig ... : The way you talk of "the" external interface, I'm assuming this : computer has only one. Is there a reason for not simply binding to : INADDR_ANY aka 0.0.0.0? Ah. That's what I really wanted. Thanks a lot. I wonder why that was not mentioned in the tutorial I used ... -- :-- Hans Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list