Hands on the Socket Module in Python

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import socket

hostname = socket.gethostname()

socket.gethostbyname(hostname)

'172.17.0.3'

[m for m in dir(socket) if "host" in m]

['gethostbyaddr',
 'gethostbyname',
 'gethostbyname_ex',
 'gethostname',
 'sethostname']