determine IP

[Ed Leafe]

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.

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