Windows getting local ip address

[SolaFide]

On Linux, it is a simple matter to get the local ip address with
system.os("ifconfig >> /tmp/ip"); ip=open("/tmp/ip").readlines(), etc.
How can I do this with Windows?

[utabintarbo]

You can do essentially the same thing substituting "ipconfig" for
ifconfig.

Though I am sure there are better ways....

[Fredrik Lundh]

"SolaFide" wrote:

On Linux, it is a simple matter to get the local ip address with
system.os("ifconfig >> /tmp/ip"); ip=open("/tmp/ip").readlines(), etc.
ip = os.popen("ifconfig").readlines()

is a bit more convenient.
How can I do this with Windows?

the command is called "ipconfig" in windows.

there's also

import socket
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname()) '1.2.3.4' socket.gethostbyname_ex(socket.gethostname()) ('bender.shiny.com', ['bender'], ['1.2.3.4']) socket.getaddrinfo(socket.gethostname(), 0) [(2, 1, 0, '', ('1.2.3.4', 0)), (2, 2, 0, '', ('1.2.3.4', 0))]

etc. if you're behind a firewall/NAT etc and you want your "public IP",
you can do something like:
import re, urllib
ip = urllib.urlopen('http://checkip.dyndns.org').read()
re.search("(\d+\.\d+\.\d+.\d+)", ip).group()

'4.3.2.1'

hope this helps!

</F>

[Arne Ludwig]

The second solution can give really weird results though, e.g. on my
Linux system I get:

gethostbyaddr(gethostname()) ('linux.site', ['linux'], ['127.0.0.2'])

A more flexible but potentially unportable way would be:
import socket
import fcntl
import struct

def get_ip_address(ifname): .... s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
.... return socket.inet_ntoa(fcntl.ioctl(
.... s.fileno(),
.... 0x8915, # SIOCGIFADDR
.... struct.pack('256s', ifname[:15])
.... )[20:24])
.... get_ip_address('eth0')

'192.168.0.174'

[Erno Kuusela]

The traditional right way (tm) to do this is to call getsockname() on
the (a?) socket that's connected to the guy you want to tell your
address to. This picks the right address in case you have several. If
you don't have a socket handy, you can make a connectionless UDP
socket and connect() it to a suitable place - this won't result in any
packets on the wire. NAT breaks it of course, but then you couldn't
easily be contacted from outside the NAT anyway.

-- erno

[Arne Ludwig]

That man is a genius:

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.connect(("gmail.com",80))
print s.getsockname() ('192.168.0.174', 2768) s.close()

Should work on Windows as well.