From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-08-05T22:30:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] macaddr-1.0.0

ara.t.howard wrote:
> 
> 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

Yes, that's all I meant - that it had a bunch of alternative 
implementations.

Regards,

Dan