Question

Using PyCharm Edu on Windows, need to ask for an IP address (input), use "ipaddress.ip_address" to validate it, only if error (value or type) set the default IP to 192.168.1.1, if no error then use the original input. This is the code so far and I need help please.

def req_Address():
    while True:

        try:
            address = str(ipaddress.ip_address(input("Please enter the ip address you wish scan [192.168.1.1]: ")))
        except (ValueError, TypeError):
            print("Not a valid IP address")
        else:
            print("Setting the default address to 192.168.1.1")
            address = '192.168.1.1'
            print("We will use: " + address)
            print()

Answer 1

Code:

import ipaddress # importing ipaddress to check the ip address

def req_Address():  # fucntion to get the IP address
    try:
        address = input("Please enter the ip address you wish to scan[192.168.1.1]: ") # user input for ip address
        ipaddress.ip_address(address) # checking the ip address if any error occured
        print("We will use: " + address)    # printig the message
    except ValueError or TypeError: # raising exception for Value and type errors
        print("Not a valid IP address") # message for Invalid IP input
        print("Setting the default address to 192.168.1.1") # message
        address = '192.168.1.1' # setting the default IP
        print("We will use: " + address)    # printig the message
        print() # for new line
    return address # return IP address


req_Address() # calling fucntion 

Sample output:

Code: Screenshot:

Note: As the name of the function suggest that some variable is requesting the ip address so I have returned the IP address in the req_address() fucntion.

line number 17 is just for demonstration purpose.

Note: Please let me know if you have any doubt or you need any modification in the code.