Conversion from IP string to integer, and backward in Python

Question

i have a little problem with my script, where i need to convert ip in form \'xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx\' to integer representation and go back from this form.

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Answer 1

You lose the left-zero-padding which breaks decoding of your string.

Here's a working function:

def inttoip(ip):
    return socket.inet_ntoa(hex(ip)[2:].zfill(8).decode('hex'))