Get IP of an External Host

For a host with a host name, the following script can return its IP.

Source Code

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import socket
hostname = 'maps.google.com'
addr = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
print 'The address of', hostname, 'is', addr

Output

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# python getIP.py
The address of maps.google.com is 74.125.128.138