Finding a public facing IP address in Python?

Question

How can I find the public facing IP for my net work in Python?

Answer 1

This will fetch your remote IP address

import urllib ip = urllib.urlopen('http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp').read() 

If you don't want to rely on someone else, then just upload something like this PHP script:

<?php echo $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']; ?> 

and change the URL in the Python or if you prefer ASP:

<% Dim UserIPAddress UserIPAddress = Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR") %> 

Note: I don't know ASP, but I figured it might be useful to have here so I googled.