As part of a larger application, I am trying to convert an IP address to binary. Purpose being to later calculate the broadcast address for Wake on LAN traffic. I am assuming that there is a much more efficient way to do this then the way I am thinking. Which is breaking up the IP address by octet, adding 0’s to the beginning of each octet where necessary, converting each octet to binary, then combining the results. Should I be looking at netaddr, sockets, or something completely different?
Example: From 192.168.1.1 to 11000000.10101000.00000001.00000001
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Answer
You think of something like below ?
ip = '192.168.1.1'
print '.'.join([bin(int(x)+256)[3:] for x in ip.split('.')])
I agree with others, you probably should avoid to convert to binary representation to achieve what you want.