On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 08:52:58 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Nov 21, 5:34 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
Frankly, neither do I. > Joe Riopel pointed out that it works on Windows XP. Yes, it does. Most things in Python are platform independent. > 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. I'm not surprised. Windows XP usually stores the hosts file here: C:\system32\drivers\etc\hosts > Perhaps the original poster should upgrade to Windows XP. Oh my, that's one of the funniest things I've ever read. You are joking, right? > Or maybe he just needs to delete /etc/hosts. Not sure what that > would do. Almost certainly it would seriously break lots of things. Besides, he may not have root access on the machine he's running Python on. > In any case, if on some system socket.gethostbyname > doesn't work, shouldn't it be fixed? Who says it doesn't work? -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
