python increment ipaddress

Question

I would like to increment an ip address by a fixed value.

Precisely this is what I am trying to achieve, I have an ip address say, 192.168.0.3 and I wan

Answer 1

Convert the last part of your IP address into a number, add 1 to it, and call ifconfig.

I think the approach of incrementing the last bit will not scale well as we span across networks. –OP

I thought of mentioning that in my original answer, but didn't, for various reasons. These reasons are as follows:

• I thought it is unlikely you would need to do this, and could not guess why you'd want to.
• Even if you did need to do this, you could just parse the second-to-last number.
• This is only valid for those bits where the netmask is 0.
• You also have to worry about "special" reserved IP ranges, such as 192.168.etc.etc. Also hex doublets with 0 and possibly ff/255 have special meaning. There are different rules in IPv6.