Get IP of the Current Host

If a host is connected to the internet, the following script running on the host, can return its IP.

Source Code

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import socket

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
s.connect(("gmail.com",80))
print(s.getsockname()[0])
s.close()

Reference

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/166506/finding-local-ip-addresses-using-pythons-stdlib