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Learn IP Address Concepts With Python's ipaddress Module – Real Python

• IP Address, the short form of Internet Protocol Address, is a unique address given to each electronic device like computer such that they can communicate with each other.

In Python, you can manipulate IP Address as an object, using Python’s ipaddress module. This module is built-in and will not require downloading in any IDEs.

• IPv4 Address is a 32-bit integer used to represent a host on a network. The term host is sometimes used synonymously with an address. What this means is, a host is given an address, an address is given to a host. Every host has one unique address.

The IPv4 Address typically has the following form: n1.n2.n3.n4/c

→ n1, n2, n3, n4 are called octets, each octet ranges from 0 to 255; c is called CIDR (Notation, ranging from 0 to 32. The above form is called the decimal form of the IPv4 Address. Alternative form: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/c

IPv4 Address in Binary form: bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb.bbbbbbbb/c

Each octet contributes to 8 bits, which is 8 binary values.

→ That makes the total number of possible IP Addresses: 2^32 = 4,294,967, 296

Generate an IPv4 address with Python:

# IPv4 Address with Python
from ipaddress import IPv4Address
ip = IPv4Address("192.168.12.10")
print(ip)

Output:

192.168.12.10

Compare two IPv4 Addresses.

# Compare two IPv4 Addresses
from ipaddress import IPv4Address
ip1 = IPv4Address("192.168.12.10")
ip2 = IPv4Address("220.168.13.134")
print(ip1 < ip2)
print(ip1 > ip2)

Output: