On Tue, 20 Feb 2018 05:31:27 +1100, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 3:49 AM, Wildman via Python-list > <python-list@python.org> wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Feb 2018 12:32:49 +0000, Rhodri James wrote: >> >>> On 18/02/18 16:18, Wildman via Python-list wrote: >>>>> But that's only going to show one (uplink) address. If I needed to get >>>>> ALL addresses for ALL network adapters, I'd either look for a library, >>>>> and if one wasn't easily found, I'd shell out to the "ip" command and >>>>> parse its output.:) >>>>> >>>> I considered using the "ip" command but I prefer not to >>>> depend on external programs if I can get around it. I >>>> know that might be considered silly but that's just me. >>> >>> It's not silly at all, but for Linux networking it might be the best >>> idea. I believe in theory you are supposed to use libnl (in some >>> suitable wrapping), but my experience with that is that it is badly >>> documented and horrendously unreliable. >> >> It looks like libnl would do what I want but there is >> a problem. When finished, my program will be released >> in the form of a Debian (*.deb) package and used by, >> for the most part, 'average' Linux users. These are >> people that know their way around Linux but know >> nothing or very little about Python. Installing a >> package using pip by them is pretty much out of the >> question. The system's package manager must be able >> to handle the program's dependencies so third-party >> packages are out of the question. >> >> But thanks for the suggestion. > > If you're distributing it as a .deb, you don't want to use pip to grab > additional libraries. Ideally, you'd want the library to *also* be > available through the package manager, which would mean you can simply > record it as a dependency. If it's not... it's not gonna be easy. > > ChrisA
Yes, you are correct. Third-party pip packages are always a no-no. Speaking of which, there is a library called Netifaces that will easily do exactly what I want with a few lines of code. But, it is not to be found in any Linux distro's repository that I can find. Oh well... -- <Wildman> GNU/Linux user #557453 "There are only 10 types of people in the world... those who understand Binary... and those who don't." -Spike -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
