Question

Hey, i’m new to python programing and i have problem that i can’t decifer the answer to though a google search.

I need to ping a website address (eg http://www.google.com) and have python return me a IP address.

Cheers

Answer 1

you want to do a “DNS lookup” :

import socket
print socket.gethostbyname('www.google.com')

Output:

74.125.230.112

EDIT:

For IPv6 support, you can use getaddrinfo(). However, I’m not sure that is what you want 😉