On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Nehemiah Dacres <vivacar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is ther an easy way to get the resolved ip address of the machine a script > is running on? socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname) has only returned > the ip address of my loop back interface ... not very usefull.
That's because your /etc/hosts resolves your hostname to 127.0.0.1 :) And no I know of no "easy" way cross platform way. Perhaps parsing the output of ifconfig itself ? cheers James -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
