Python Socket | How To Convert IPv4 Address

Python Socket | How To Convert IPv4 Address – When you would like to deal with low-level network functions, sometimes, the usual string
notation of IP addresses are not very useful. They need to be converted to the packed 32-bit  binary formats.

The Python socket library has utilities to deal with the various IP address formats. Here,  we will use two of them: inet_aton() and inet_ntoa().

 

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So now this is the complete code

 

 

So at the top we have created ipConversion() method, where inet_aton() and  inet_ntoa() will be used for the IP address conversion. We will use two sample IP
addresses, 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.0.1.

 

 

Run the complete code this will be the result

 

 

 

How it Works

In this article, the two IP addresses have been converted from a string to a 32-bit packed
format using a for-in statement. Additionally, the Python hexlify function is called from
the binascii module. This helps to represent the binary data in a hexadecimal format.

 

 

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