Convert an IP string to a number and vice versa

Question

How would I use python to convert an IP address that comes as a str to a decimal number and vice versa?

For example, for the IP 186.99.109.000 &l

Answer 1

Use class IPAddress in module netaddr.

ipv4 str -> int:

print int(netaddr.IPAddress('192.168.4.54'))
# OUTPUT: 3232236598

ipv4 int -> str:

print str(netaddr.IPAddress(3232236598))
# OUTPUT: 192.168.4.54

ipv6 str -> int:

print int(netaddr.IPAddress('2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:ff00:0042:8329'))
# OUTPUT: 42540766411282592856904265327123268393

ipv6 int -> str:

print str(netaddr.IPAddress(42540766411282592856904265327123268393))
# OUTPUT: 2001:db8::ff00:42:8329

Answer 2

Since Python 3.3 there is the ipaddress module that does exactly this job among others: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ipaddress.html. Backports for Python 2.x are also available on PyPI.

Example usage:

import ipaddress

ip_in_int = int(ipaddress.ip_address('192.168.1.1'))
ip_in_hex = hex(ipaddress.ip_address('192.168.1.1'))

Answer 3

Convert IP to integer :

python -c "print sum( [int(i)*2**(8*j) for  i,j in zip( '10.20.30.40'.split('.'), [3,2,1,0]) ] )"

Convert Interger to IP :

python -c "print '.'.join( [ str((169090600 >> 8*i) % 256)  for i in [3,2,1,0] ])"