From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T13:18:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] macaddr-1.0.0


On Aug 4, 2008, at 9:53 PM, Daniel Berger wrote:

> This Python library may be of interest:
>
> http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-win32/2005-September/003746.html
>
> Covers pretty much every which way to get the info without shelling  
> out.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dan


hmmm - i don't read too much python but this looks like shelling out:


def getmacs_ifconfig():
     """parses the output of unix ifconfig to find mac addresses"""
     lines = os.popen("ifconfig", "r").readlines()
     headerlines = [line for line in lines if line and not
line[:1].isspace()]
     for line in headerlines:
         parts = line.split()
         ifname = parts[0]
         if 'HWaddr' in parts:
             hwpart = parts.index('HWaddr')
             if hwpart+1 < len(parts):
                 mac = parts[hwpart+1]
                 yield mac

def getmacs_ipconfig():
     """parses the output of windows ipconfig to find MAC addresses"""
     lines = os.popen("ipconfig /all", "r").readlines()
     for line in lines:
         if line and not line[:1].isspace():
             header = line
             ipaddress, mac = None, None
         elif line.strip():
             if line.strip().startswith("IP Address") and ":" in line:
                 ipaddress = line.split(":", 1)[1].strip()
                 if mac:
                     yield mac
                     ipaddress, mac = None, None
             if line.strip().startswith("Physical Address") and ":" in  
line:
                 mac = line.split(":", 1)[1].strip()
                 if ipaddress:
                     yield mac
                     ipaddress, mac = None, None



you are right that's it's more complete though!  if anyone wants to  
add a test for their platform porting using this lib as 'doc' i'm  
happy to add it

cheers.


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