find public ip using python (executable)

findIP.py

!#/usr/bin/python

# simple python script to return your public IP address using whatismyip.com
# if executed from command line will display IP

def findIP():
    '''
    Returns your IP address. Includes setting the header to match the request
    see http://www.whatismyip.com/faq/automation.asp
    '''

    headers = { 'User-Agent' : 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0)' \
                    + ' Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0' }
    return urllib2.urlopen(
                urllib2.Request(
                        "http://automation.whatismyip.com/n09230945.asp",
                         None, headers )
                ).read()


if __name__=="__main__":
    print findIP()