Python: How do I get the IP address from a FQDN

If I have an FQDN e.g., www.google.com, how do I get the corresponding IP address开发者_Go百科?

The easiest way to do this is socket.gethostbyname().

You can use socket.getaddrinfo. That will give you the differents IP address associated with the name, and can also give you the IPv6 address.

From the documentation:

>>> import socket
>>> help(socket.getaddrinfo)
Help on built-in function getaddrinfo in module _socket:

getaddrinfo(...)
    getaddrinfo(host, port [, family, socktype, proto, flags])
        -> list of (family, socktype, proto, canonname, sockaddr)

    Resolve host and port into addrinfo struct.
>>> from pprint import pprint
>>> pprint(socket.getaddrinfo('www.google.com', 80))
[(2, 1, 6, '', ('74.125.230.83', 80)),
 (2, 2, 17, '', ('74.125.230.83', 80)),
 (2, 3, 0, '', ('74.125.230.83', 80)),
 (2, 1, 6, '', ('74.125.230.80', 80)),
 (2, 2, 17, '', ('74.125.230.80', 80)),
 (2, 3, 0, '', ('74.125.230.80', 80)),
 (2, 1, 6, '', ('74.125.230.81', 80)),
 (2, 2, 17, '', ('74.125.230.81', 80)),
 (2, 3, 0, '', ('74.125.230.81', 80)),
 (2, 1, 6, '', ('74.125.230.84', 80)),
 (2, 2, 17, '', ('74.125.230.84', 80)),
 (2, 3, 0, '', ('74.125.230.84', 80)),
 (2, 1, 6, '', ('74.125.230.82', 80)),
 (2, 2, 17, '', ('74.125.230.82', 80)),
 (2, 3, 0, '', ('74.125.230.82', 80))]

Note: gethostbyname is deprecated in C (and Python socket.gethostbyname is implemented with it) as it does not support IPv6 addresses, and getaddrinfo is the recommended replacement.

Use socket.gethostbyname(hostname) see: http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.gethostbyname