I switch between multiple computers for work and until we get a server running for our data, I have to manually change the path to a file that stores my masking. This annoyed me, since I switch a lot and the file paths are different. So, I'm trying to use socket to manage the file paths on my different computers. This is the code so far:
import socket
hostname = socket.gethostname()
ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
if ip_address is '124.0.1.1':
print('Working on laptop 1:')
masked_data = '/mnt/c/Users/file/path/woot/woot'
else:
raise ValueError('Which computer are you on? Need to know for mask filepath...')
exit()
What I'm wanting is essentially this: 1) Pull IP off the computer, 2) if it's laptop 1 use the IP from that computer and follow that file path, 3) if it's not, raise the error. (I'll update this for a few computers, but who needs complication here?)
The issue I'm having is this:
When I run the script as shown above, it skips the if statement and throws the error. But, if I add the string that the line socket.gethostbyname(hostname) outputs, it works fine.
i.e., the code above does not work, but the code below does:
import socket
ip_address = '124.0.1.1'
if ip_address is '124.0.1.1':
print('Working on laptop 1:')
masked_data = '/mnt/c/Users/file/path/woot/woot'
else:
raise ValueError('Which computer are you on? Need to know for mask filepath...')
exit()
In Ipython, when I run the script and check what ip_address is, it's literally a string with the IP address. i.e.,
In [1]: hostname = socket.gethostname()
In [2]: ip_address = socket.gethostbyname(hostname)
In [3]: ip_address
Out[3]: '124.0.1.1'
I don't know what's going on and I'm not sure why this doesn't work.
