Convert an IP string to a number and vice versa

Question

How would I use python to convert an IP address that comes as a str to a decimal number and vice versa?

For example, for the IP 186.99.109.000 &l

Answer 1

Since Python 3.3 there is the ipaddress module that does exactly this job among others: https://docs.python.org/3/library/ipaddress.html. Backports for Python 2.x are also available on PyPI.

Example usage:

import ipaddress

ip_in_int = int(ipaddress.ip_address('192.168.1.1'))
ip_in_hex = hex(ipaddress.ip_address('192.168.1.1'))