socket.inet_aton() - socket

Convert an IPv4 address from dotted-quad string format (for example,
‘123.45.67.89’) to 32-bit packed binary format, as a bytes object four characters in
length.  This is useful when conversing with a program that uses the standard C
library and needs objects of type struct in_addr, which is the C type
for the 32-bit packed binary this function returns.

Syntax

socket.inet_aton(ip_string)

Example

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