Conversion from IP string to integer, and backward in Python

Question

i have a little problem with my script, where i need to convert ip in form 'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx' to integer representation and go back from this form.

def iptoint(ip):
    return int(socket.inet_aton(ip).encode('hex'),16)

def inttoip(ip):
    return socket.inet_ntoa(hex(ip)[2:].decode('hex'))


In [65]: inttoip(iptoint('192.168.1.1'))
Out[65]: '192.168.1.1'

In [66]: inttoip(iptoint('4.1.75.131'))
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
error                                     Traceback (most recent call last)

/home/thc/<ipython console> in <module>()

/home/thc/<ipython console> in inttoip(ip)

error: packed IP wrong length for inet_ntoa`

Anybody knows how to fix that?

Answer 1

#!/usr/bin/env python
import socket
import struct


def ip2int(addr):
    return struct.unpack("!I", socket.inet_aton(addr))[0]


def int2ip(addr):
    return socket.inet_ntoa(struct.pack("!I", addr))


print(int2ip(0xc0a80164)) # 192.168.1.100
print(ip2int('10.0.0.1')) # 167772161