How to sort IP addresses stored in dictionary in Python?

Question

I have a piece of code that looks like this:

ipCount = defaultdict(int)

for logLine in logLines:
    date, serverIp, clientIp = logLine.split(\" \")
    ipC         


        

Answer 1

if your application does lots of things like "find ips in range x", "sort by ip" etc its often more convenient to store the numeric value of the ip internally and work with this one.

from socket import inet_aton,inet_ntoa
import struct

def ip2long(ip):
    packed = inet_aton(ip)
    lng = struct.unpack("!L", packed)[0]
    return lng

convert the number back into an ip using this function:

def long2ip(lng):
    packed = struct.pack("!L", lng)
    ip=inet_ntoa(packed)
    return ip


>>> ip2long('192.168.1.1')
3232235777
>>> ip2long('1.2.3.4')
16909060
>>> long2ip(3232235777)
'192.168.1.1'
>>> long2ip(16909060)
'1.2.3.4'