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

Python3 oneliner (based on Thomas Webber's Python2 answer):

sum([int(x) << 8*i for i,x in enumerate(reversed(ip.split('.')))])

Left shifts are much faster than pow().