Keep on getting 127.0.0.1 as my IP address instead of 176.191.77.130 with Python socket-CodePudding

So I've been trying to get my computer's IP address with Python socket programming. Here is my code:

import socket
print(socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())

However, the output is always '127.0.0.1' instead of the actual IP, which is 176.191.77.130

For your knowledge, I have MacOS. What can be the problem here, guys?

Thanks in advance!

CodePudding user response：

So the solution for my specific problem that I've found was to simply use an IP-determining API within my code. I reckon, for many people's code it ought to work as well, since in many cases you just intend to get a public IP of a computer, with which task an API copes really well.