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# this comes from this stack overflow post:
# http://stackoverflow.com/a/1947766/725944
# module for getting the lan ip address of the computer
import os
import socket
if os.name != "nt":
import fcntl
import struct
def get_interface_ip(ifname):
sckt = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
return socket.inet_ntoa(fcntl.ioctl(
sckt.fileno(),
0x8915, # SIOCGIFADDR
struct.pack('256s', ifname[:15])
)[20:24])
def get_lan_ip():
ip = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
if ip.startswith("127.") and os.name != "nt":
interfaces = ["eth0","eth1","eth2","wlan0","wlan1","wifi0","ath0","ath1","ppp0"]
for ifname in interfaces:
try:
ip = get_interface_ip(ifname)
break
except IOError:
pass
return ip