pythonip-address

Python randomly generated IP address as string

In Python, what should I do if I want to generate a random string in the form of an IP address?

For example: "10.0.1.1", "10.0.3.14", "172.23.35.1" and so on.

Could someone give me some help?

Solution 
  • >>> import random
>>> import socket
>>> import struct
>>> socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack('>I', random.randint(1, 0xffffffff)))
'197.38.59.143'
>>> socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack('>I', random.randint(1, 0xffffffff)))
'228.237.175.64'

    NOTE This could generate IPs like 0.0.0.0, 255.255.255.255.