Finding local IP addresses using Python's stdlib

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How can I find local IP addresses (i.e. 192.168.x.x or 10.0.x.x) in Python platform independently and using only the standard library?

Accepted Answer

```
import socket
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
```

This won't work always (returns `127.0.0.1` on machines having the hostname in `/etc/hosts` as `127.0.0.1`), a paliative would be what gimel shows, use `socket.getfqdn()` instead. Of course your machine needs a resolvable hostname.

Finding local IP addresses using Python's stdlib

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