IP address to binary conversion

[al.alexiev at gmail.com]

Just for the records and to have a fully working bidirectional solution:

>>> ip
'10.44.32.0'
>>> struct.unpack('L', socket.inet_aton(ip))[0]
2108426
>>> socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack('<L', 2108426))
'10.44.32.0'
>>>

Good luck ;-)