How do you determine if an IP address is private, in Python?

Question

In Python, what is the best way to determine if an IP address (e.g., \'127.0.0.1\' or \'10.98.76.6\') is on a private network? The code does not s

Answer 1

A few days after asking this question, I found out about this Google project, ipaddr-py, which appears to have some of the same functionality with respect to determining if an address is private (is_rfc1918). Apparently this will be standard in Python 3.1.