Using a RegEx to match IP addresses in Python

Question

I\'m trying to make a test for checking whether a sys.argv input matches the RegEx for an IP address...

As a simple test, I have the following...

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Answer 1

import re
ipv=raw_input("Enter an ip address")
a=ipv.split('.')
s=str(bin(int(a[0]))+bin(int(a[1]))+bin(int(a[2]))+bin(int(a[3])))
s=s.replace("0b",".")
m=re.search('\.[0,1]{1,8}\.[0,1]{1,8}\.[0,1]{1,8}\.[0,1]{1,8}$',s)
if m is not None:
    print "Valid sequence of input"
else :
    print "Invalid input sequence"

Just to keep it simple I have used this approach. Simple as in to explain how really ipv4 address is evaluated. Checking whether its a binary number is although not required. Hope you like this.