devurandom <devuran...@gmx.net> added the comment: > Well, without a valid MAC address the function cannot work... It should not break in such ugly way either, imo.
> On the other hand, I would not worry too much: > uuid._ifconfig_getnode() is an internal function; and since all the > other tests pass, uuid.getnode() probably has other ways to get a > unique identifier for the machine. Here test_uuid fails due to this issue. Which in turn prevents my python3 rpm from being build. > And by the way, in python 3.2, the test function is skipped with this > message: > """WARNING: uuid._ifconfig_getnode is unreliable on many platforms. > It is disabled until the code and/or test can be fixed properly.""" That does not seem to be true anymore in Python 3.2.2. Would be nice if you could detect the all-zero case and just skip the test in that case. ---------- nosy: +devurandom _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3581> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com