Hello, I have recently written a small function that will verify that an IP address is valid.
==SNIP== import re ipAddress = raw_input('IP Address : ') def validateIP(ipAddress): ipRegex = r"^([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.([01]?\d\d?|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])$" re_ip = re.compile(ipRegex) match = re_ip.match(ipAddress) if not match: print "an error has occured with ipAddress" return match else: return match print(validateIP(ipAddress)) ==SNIP== I was having issues trying to get my code working so that I could pass the IP addresses and it would return a true or false. When it matches I get something that looks like this. python ip_valid.py IP Address : 192.158.1.1 <_sre.SRE_Match object at 0xb7de8c80> As I am still attempting to learn python I am interested to know how I could get the above to return a true or false if it matches or does not match the IP address. I would also like to expand that so that if the IP is wrong it requests the IP address again and recalls the function. I have done the same thing in php very easily but python appears to be getting the better of me. Any assistance and advice would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Johhny -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list