Get ip address of visitors using Python (specifically Flask micro-framework)

Question

Hi,

I am using the Flask micro-framework (based on Werkzeug) which uses Python (2.6 in my case).

I'm making a website where users can log on and download files.

I need to get the ip address of users when they log on (for logging purposes). Does anyone know how to do this? Surely there is a way to do it with Python?


I apologize for the lack of code. Thank you in advance :-)

Answer 1

See the documentation on how to access the Request object here and then get from this same Request object, the attribute remote_addr, for more information see this documentation of Werkzeug.