I installed Zabbix 3.4 on Oracle VM Virtualbox Manger v 5.2.2r119230(Qt5.6.2). The reason for that was to have a test-environment for Zabbix versions.

https://www.lifewire.com/run-ubuntu-within-windows-virtualbox-2202098

Here Zabbix 3.4 is running on Linux 14.04.5:

https://www.zabbix.com/download

Configure Oracle VM Virtualbox Manger and get the IP:

Go to File->Host Network Manger and create a network

Configure Oracle VM Virtualbox Manger to use that network:

NAT1:

NAT2:

Get the IP from the virtual machine:

Python lib:py-zabbix==1.1.3

https://github.com/lukecyca/pyzabbix

Python sender:
Now check the output form your env:
And the data in Zabbix: