IP address of webserver

[Gabriel Genellina]

"Johny" <python at hope.cz> escribió en el mensaje 
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> How can I find server's IP address?
>>From console I can use ping, for example:
>
> C:\RobotP\cgi-bin>ping www.google.com
> Pinging www.google.com [209.85.129.147] with 32 bytes of data:
> [...]
> But how can I find it directly from Python script?

py> import socket
py> help(socket.gethostbyname)
Help on built-in function gethostbyname in module _socket:

gethostbyname(...)
    gethostbyname(host) -> address

    Return the IP address (a string of the form '255.255.255.255') for a 
host.

py> socket.gethostbyname("www.google.com")
'209.85.165.147'

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Gabriel Genellina