Python has socket.inet_pton, which also supports IPv6: http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.inet_pton http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#s

Python has socket.inet_pton, which also supports IPv6: http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.inet_pton http://docs.python.org/library/socket.html#socket.inet_pton Edit: Ooh, and Py3k has the ipaddr module: http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/ipaddr.html http://docs.python.org/dev/py3k/library/ipaddr.html