determine IP

[exarkun at divmod.com]

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 11:38:57 -0500, Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com> wrote:
>On Nov 7, 2004, at 11:04 AM, exarkun at divmod.com wrote:
> 
> >> is there a cross platform way to determine a local machines IP on a
> >> network (LAN or internet) in python?
> >>
> >
> >     s = socket.socket()
> >     s.connect(('google.com', 80))
> >     print s.getsockname()
> 
> 	If you are on a NAT machine on the local network, the above will 
> return the public IP of the network. If you change the target from 
> 'google.com' to a machine on your subnet that will accept the 
> connection, you'll get the local IP address.

  The above code will _always_ return the local IP address, regardless of NAT configuration.  For example, running on my desktop:

    >>> import socket
    >>> s = socket.socket()
    >>> s.connect(('google.com', 80))  
    >>> print s.getsockname()  
    ('192.168.42.4', 40044)
    >>> 

  Jp