How to get the local IP address in Python

 

 

Getting the local IP address will return the primary IP address of the host machine.

Use socket.gethostbyname() to get the local IP address

Use socket.gethostname() to get the hostname of the host machine. Call socket.gethostbyname(hostname) with hostname as the hostname of the host machine to get the local IP address.

hostname = socket.gethostname()

local_ip = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)

print(local_ip)

Output

172.17.0.2

 

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