Determine ip address

[Simon Brunning]

On 15 Apr 2005 06:03:06 -0700, codecraig <codecraig at gmail.com> wrote:
> hi,
>    how can i use python to figure the ip address of the machine which
> the python script is running on?  I dont mean like 127.0.0.1....but i
> want the external IP address (such as ipconfig on windows displays).

On Windows, this works:

socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())

Is that OK on real operating systems too?

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