Get IP address of url in python? [duplicate]

Question

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How can I do DNS lookups in Python, including referring to /etc/hosts?

Im using Python 2.7 and im creating a iptracer with an online API.

And i want the user to have the option to type e.g google.com, http://google.com or www.google.com and then get the ip address of that and add the ip to a variable.

Is it any links or other help anyone can give me?

-stian

Answer 1

>>> import socket
>>> print socket.gethostbyname('google.com')
74.125.236.52

Answer 2

You can use gethostbyname_ex() function located in socket module http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html