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

If you really want to use RegExs, the following code may filter the non-valid ip addresses in a file, no matter the organiqation of the file, one or more per line, even if there are more text (concept itself of RegExs) :

def getIps(filename):
    ips = []
    with open(filename) as file:
        for line in file:
            ipFound = re.compile("^\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}\.\d{1,3}$").findall(line)
            hasIncorrectBytes = False
            try:
                    for ipAddr in ipFound:
                        for byte in ipAddr:
                            if int(byte) not in range(1, 255):
                                hasIncorrectBytes = True
                                break
                            else:
                                pass
                    if not hasIncorrectBytes:
                        ips.append(ipAddr)
            except:
                hasIncorrectBytes = True

    return ips