I am trying to get my ip address through a script and I am using the
following code:
import socket
ip = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())
ip then becomes a tuple and takes on three values. I am trying to pull the
value of ip[2] which when printed displays:
['10.5.100.17'].
I want this ip that is being returned, but I would like it as a string,
without the [' and ']. Any idea how I would trim this down?

ip = socket.gethostbyaddr(socket.gethostname())

ip then becomes a tuple and takes on three values. I am trying to pull the
value of ip[2] which when printed displays:
['10.5.100.17'].

I want this ip that is being returned, but I would like it as a string,
without the [' and ']. Any idea how I would trim this down?

Well, what you're getting back is the list of possible IP
addresses for your machine. The "['w.x.y.z']" is simply the
repr() of that list. A single machine can have multiple IP
addresses, so ip[2] returns them as a list. You can either use

ip_addresses = ip[2]
my_ip_address = ip_addresses[0]
# this is the same as
# my_ip_address = ip[2][0]
# only slightly clearer to read

or your code can graciously accomodate them the way they were
designed for:

for ip_address in ip_addresses:
print ip_address

This allows you to deal with the possibility that the machine has
more than one IP address assigned to it. I'm not at my BSD
box, but it's got at least three interfaces in it, and each one
has its own IP address assigned to it. I presume that ip[2]
would return a list of three strings in its case, something like

['192.168.3.14', '10.3.14.15', '172.16.3.14']

HTH,
-tkc