Python randomly generated IP address as string

Question

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?

Answer 1

>>> 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.

Answer 2

If you just want a string:

import random  ip = ".".join(map(str, (random.randint(0, 255)                          for _ in range(4))))