Clean way to get one's network IP address?

[drobinow at gmail.com]

On Nov 21, 5:34 pm, Steven D'Aprano <st... at REMOVE-THIS-
cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:00:52 -0500, Joe Riopel wrote:
> > On Nov 21, 2007 10:15 AM, Gilles Ganault <nos... at nospam.com> wrote:
> >> I know about socket.gethostbyname, but this relies on what's in
> >> /etc/hosts, and I'd rather have a more independent solution.
>
> > I might be missing something in your question, but on a Windows XP
> > machine, I can get the IP address of my machine using:
> >>>> from socket import gethostname, gethostbyname
> >>>> gethostbyname(gethostname())
> > '192.168.0.11'
>
> Just out of curiosity, what part of the Original Poster's comment that he
> already knew about socket.gethostbyname did you not understand?
I'm not sure if an answer is wanted here, or if the poster just enjoys
being a jerk.
  The original poster was concerned that socket.gethostbyname
read the /etc/hosts file. I have no idea why that should be a
problem but apparently it was.
   Joe Riopel pointed out that it works on Windows XP.
That's great news since I'm running XP myself. If I ever
need to find out my IP address, and I have no idea why
I would, it looks like that's how to do it. Thanks, Joe.
  Now, my copy of Windows XP does not have a file
called /etc/hosts. Perhaps the original poster should
upgrade to Windows XP. Or maybe he just needs to
delete /etc/hosts. Not sure what that would do.
 In any case, if on some system socket.gethostbyname
doesn't work, shouldn't it be fixed?