Well that is what I normally use, but I always have my hostname setup properly. In your case, that socket call won't work. You could try this link I found on google
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/439094 jay On Jan 2, 2008 9:00 AM, shawn bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It returns this > ('hostname', [], ['127.0.1.1']) > i am running this on a linux system > thanks > > > On Jan 2, 2008 8:50 AM, jay < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well that will return the reverse lookup of the current hostname > > assigned to your system. Is this a Windows or Linux/Unix system? What does > > this return? > > > > print socket.gethostname() > > print socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname ()) > > > > j > > > > > > On Jan 2, 2008 8:45 AM, shawn bright <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > > > Thanks, Jay, > > > in IDLE, this gave me 127.0.0.1 > > > is there a way to get my assigned ip instead of the localhost one? > > > thanks > > > > > > > > > On Jan 2, 2008 8:31 AM, jay < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > You could perhaps use this method > > > > > > > > import socket > > > > myIP = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())[2] > > > > > > > > Jay > > > > > > > > On Jan 2, 2008 8:25 AM, shawn bright < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > > > > > i am looking for an easy way to get my own ip address as a string > > > > > from python. > > > > > I am using Ubuntu Linux if that makes any difference. > > > > > thanks ! > > > > > > > > > > shawn > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > > >
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