determining an assigned IP address

[Donn Cave]

Quoth Jonathan Epstein <Jonathan_Epstein at nih.gov>:
| The following Perl code works:
|
|   use Sys::Hostname;
|   use Socket;
|
|   $ip=gethostbyname(hostname());
|   $theip=inet_ntoa($ip);
|
| It should be relatively straightforward to convert this to Python.

Indeed, just omit half of it!  The inet_ntoa() in particular is
already done by socket.gethostbyname().  hostname() is
socket.gethostname().  Usually this will even return the address
you want.  When it doesn't, see my previous follow-up.

	Donn Cave, donn at u.washington.edu