Python GET REMOTE SERVER'S INFO

 1 #!/usr/bin/env python
 2 #--*-- coding:utf-8 --*--
 3 # Python Network Programming Cookbook -- Chapter – 1
 4 # This program is optimized for Python 2.7.
 5 # It may run on any other version with/without modifications.
 6 import socket
 7 def get_remote_machine_info():
 8     remote_host = ‘www.python.org‘
 9     try:
10         print "IP address: %s" %socket.gethostbyname(remote_host)
11     except socket.error, err_msg:
12         print "%s: %s" %(remote_host, err_msg)
13 
14 if __name__ == ‘__main__‘:
15     get_remote_machine_info()