Can't connecte to elasticsearch using python

[safaeaz (safae)]

i have my Elasticsearch container running on my virtual machine en port 8081:9200 and i need to connect to it using python code when runnnig a script to create index in Elasticsearch

# Import packages
from elasticsearch import Elasticsearch

# Elastic search configuation
#es = Elasticsearch(HOST="http://localhost", PORT=8081)
#es = Elasticsearch()
es = Elasticsearch('http://localhost:9200')

# Creating index
es.indices.create(index="firstindex")

i got this error

my Elasticsearch container is runing well

[Miguel1 (Miguel)]

The IP you are accesing via web browser does not match with the one you are setting up on your code "localhost". Could be that the issue?

[safaeaz (safae)]

yees thanks