[Tutor] Validating String contains IP address

[Alex Kleider]

On 2017-03-31 18:01, Mats Wichmann wrote:
> On 03/31/2017 06:44 PM, Alex Kleider wrote:
>> On 2017-03-31 16:35, Ed Manning wrote:
>>> What's the best way to validate a string contains a IP address
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>> The re module perhaps?

> This assumes "an IP address" is the four dotted numbers characteristic
> of IPv4. These days that's a bad assumption unless you're absolutely
> sure an IPv6 address can never appear.  Can you?

Good point! I hadn't considered IPV6 and didn't know about the ipaddress 
module.
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