#!/usr/bin/env python

# Python Network Programming Cookbook -- Chapter -

# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.

# It may run on any other version with/without modifications.

import socket

def get_remote_machine_info():

    remote_host = 'www.python.org'

    try:

        print "IP address of %s: %s" %(remote_host, socket.gethostbyname(remote_host))

    except socket.error, err_msg:

        print "%s: %s" %(remote_host, err_msg)

if __name__ == '__main__':

    get_remote_machine_info()

IP address of www.python.org: 151.101.108.223