Validate IP Address using RegEx in Python

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Aniruddha Chaudhari
Updated: Jun 28, 2022

Problem Statement: Write a Python program to validate if the given string is a valid IP address or not.

This is one of the questions asked in the Juniper coding interview.

In Computer Network, the IP address uniquely defines each host or node in the network. You can read mode about IP address in Computer Networking.

Basically, this is a pattern matching problem where we can use a regular expression (RegEx).

IP Address Validation using Python RegEx

Here we are using the search method from the re module. You can find more detail in the Python RegEx tutorial.

Method 1: Using RegEx

Code

import re 
  
regexIP = '''^(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.( 
    25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.( 
    25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.( 
    25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9][0-9]?)'''
  
def validateIP(strIP): 
  
    if(re.search(regexIP, strIP)):
        print(f"{strIP} is a valid IP address.") 
      
    else: 
        print(f"{strIP} is an invalid IP address.") 
  
  
if __name__ == '__main__' : 
      
    strIP = "122.134.3.123"
    validateIP(strIP) 
  
    strIP = "44.235.34.1"
    validateIP(strIP) 
  
    strIP = "277.13.23.17"
    validateIP(strIP)

Output

122.134.3.123 is a valid IP address. 
44.235.34.1 is a valid IP address.
277.13.23.17 is an invalid IP address.

Note: When we say IP address, by default it’s IPv4 address which is different from IPv6 address.

Method 2: Without RegEx

Python Code:

(This solution is shared by Mallikarjuna.)

def validate_ip(ip):
    part = ip.split(".")
    if not (len(part) == 4):
        return False
    for i in part:
        if int(i) > 255:
            return False
        if not isinstance(int(i),int):
            return False
    return True
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    ip = "10.10.10.40"
    out = validate_ip(ip)
    if out:
        print(f"{ip} is valid IP.")
    else:
        print(f"{ip} is invalid IP.")

This is a simple program to validate IP address using regex in Python. Do you have any other solutions? Let me know in the comment. Thanks!

Aniruddha Chaudhari

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9 Comments

Rajat says:

April 11, 2021 at 11:33 pm

It says it’s valid – 122.134.3.0991 is a valid IP address.

Can you test with this string – strIP = “122.134.3.0991”?

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1. Aniruddha Chaudhari says:
  
  April 17, 2021 at 10:38 am
  
  Thanks for identifying it. Looks like we also have to check the length of each octave.
  
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Malan says:

May 31, 2021 at 10:37 pm

Just add $ in the end.

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1. Aniruddha Chaudhari says:
  
  June 1, 2021 at 12:49 pm
  
  Not sure where do you want to add $. The code is working. You can try executing code on our online CSEstack IDE.
  
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out = "10.10.10.40"
part = out.split(".")
if len(part) > 4:
    print("invalid")
for i in part:
    if int(i)  255:
        print("invalid")
    if not isinstance(int(i),int):
        print("invalid")
print("valid")

This is a truly simple and easy solution. Thanks for sharing. Here problem statement is to write the regex expression to check the valid IP address.

#ip = "122.134.3.0991"
ip ="10.49.121.22"
part = ip.split(".")
if len(part) == 4:
    print('''It's a Valid IPv4 format''')
    c=0
    for i in part:
        if int(i) < 255:
            c = c+1
    if c == 4:
       print("A valid IP Address")
    else:
       print("Invalid IP Address&quot")    
        
else:
    print("""It's completely an Invalid IPv4 format""")

Aniruddha Chaudhari says:

July 30, 2022 at 12:02 pm

This solution looks very good without regex expression.

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import re
c=0
ipadd="10.049.204.1"
ip=ipadd.split('.')
exp ='(2[0-5][0-4]|[01](\d?){2}|(\d?){2})'
for i in ip:
    print(i)
    if(re.fullmatch(exp,i)):
        c=c+1
if c==4:
    print("It is a valid IP")
else:
    print("An invalid IP")