Checking for IP addresses

Question

Are there any existing libraries to parse a string as an ipv4 or ipv6 address, or at least identify whether a string is an IP address (of either sort)?

Answer 1

I prefer ip_interface because it handles situations both with and without prefix mask, for example, both "10.1.1.1/24" as well as simply "10.1.1.1". Needless to say, works for both v4 as well as v6

from ipaddress import ip_interface
ip_interface("10.1.1.1/24").ip
ip_interface("10.1.1.1/24").ip.version
ip_interface("10.1.1.1").ip
ip_interface("10.1.1.1").ip.version