Python Network Programming

How it works...

This recipe is similar to the previous one. The preceding script takes a command-line argument: the name of the network interface whose IP address is to be known. The get_ip_address() function creates a socket object and calls the fnctl.ioctl() function to query on that object about IP information. Note that the socket.inet_ntoa() function converts the binary data to a human-readable string in a dotted format as we are familiar with it.