On Tuesday 24 November 2009, Shashwat Anand wrote: On my openSuse 11.0 machine your method doesn't work as intended:
e...@lixie:~> python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Dec 1 2008, 18:10:01) [GCC 4.3.1 20080507 (prerelease) [gcc-4_3-branch revision 135036]] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import socket >>> socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) '127.0.0.2' >>> It's a valid IP of my computer, but not the one you wanted. You could have written this one from memory (well I would have written 127.0.0.1, which is also valid). Parsing the output from ifconfig would work for my computer. Kind regards, Eike. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
