check if an IP is within a range of CIDR in Python

Question

I know there are some similar questions up here, but they mostly either want to find the range itself (which uses some libraries, like the example that stackoverflow says is

Answer 1

For python 2 & 3 use:

from ipaddress import ip_network, ip_address

def in_cidr(ip, cidr):
  return ip_address(ip) in ip_network(cidr)

Demo

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For pyhton 2.7 install using:

pip install ipaddress