check if an IP is within a range of CIDR in Python

Question

I know there are some similar questions up here, but they mostly either want to find the range itself (which uses some libraries, like the example that stackoverflow says is

Answer 1

Your code compares strings, not numbers. I would suggest using tuples instead:

>>> ip_range = [(1,1,0,0), (1,1,255,255)]
>>> testip = (1,1,2,2)
>>> testip > ip_range[0] and testip < ip_range[1]
True
>>> testip = (1,3,1,1)
>>> testip > ip_range[0] and testip < ip_range[1]
False