[python] How can I get the IP address from NIC in Python?

Since most of the answers use ifconfig to extract the IPv4 from the eth0 interface, which is deprecated in favor of ip addr, the following code could be used instead:

import os

ipv4 = os.popen('ip addr show eth0 | grep "\<inet\>" | awk \'{ print $2 }\' | awk -F "/" \'{ print $1 }\'').read().strip()
ipv6 = os.popen('ip addr show eth0 | grep "\<inet6\>" | awk \'{ print $2 }\' | awk -F "/" \'{ print $1 }\'').read().strip()

UPDATE:

Alternatively, you can shift part of the parsing task to the python interpreter by using split() instead of grep and awk, as @serg points out in the comment:

import os

ipv4 = os.popen('ip addr show eth0').read().split("inet ")[1].split("/")[0]
ipv6 = os.popen('ip addr show eth0').read().split("inet6 ")[1].split("/")[0]

But in this case you have to check the bounds of the array returned by each split() call.

UPDATE 2:

Another version using regex:

import os
import re

ipv4 = re.search(re.compile(r'(?<=inet )(.*)(?=\/)', re.M), os.popen('ip addr show eth0').read()).groups()[0]
ipv6 = re.search(re.compile(r'(?<=inet6 )(.*)(?=\/)', re.M), os.popen('ip addr show eth0').read()).groups()[0]

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