Determine ip address

[rbt]

codecraig 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).
> 
> any ideas??
> 
> THanks
> 

To get the public IP (like when you're behind a wirless router, etc) you 
may try doing something like this:

import urllib
import re
import time

ip_search = re.compile ('\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}')

try:
     f = urllib.urlopen("http://www.ipchicken.com")
     data = f.read()
     f.close()
     current_ip = ip_search.findall(data)
     if current_ip:
         print current_ip
         time.sleep(3)
except Exception:
     pass

HTH,

rbt