python get public ip address

                                    # This example requires the requests library be installed.  You can learn more
# about the Requests library here: http://docs.python-requests.org/en/latest/

from requests import get

ip = get('https://api.ipify.org').text
print 'My public IP address is:', ip

                                    # this is more faster solution written in python2 tho :D
# comapre it with other solutions and you'll see

import urllib2

def get_public_ip(request_target):
	grabber = urllib2.build_opener()
	grabber.addheaders = [('Useragent','Mozilla/5.0')]
	try:
		public_ip_address = grabber.open(target_url).read()
	except urllib2.HTTPError, error:
		print("There was an error trying to get your Public IP: %s") % (error)
	except urllib2.URLError, error:
		print("There was an error trying to get your Public IP: %s") % (error)
	return public_ip_address

public_ip = "None"
target_url = "http://ip.42.pl/raw"
public_ip = get_public_ip(target_url)

if not "None" in public_ip:
	print("Your Public IP address is: %s") % (str(public_ip))
else:
	print("Your Public IP address was not found")