Frank Millman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry that I can't help you in any way but have a question myself. Is > > there an OS independent way to get this thing(regardless of how to > > format it) in Python ? I know this may not matter if all you want is > > Windows but there is just another thread talking about one should write > > programs that is OS independent. > > > > Is this a problem of the network library of python ? > > This is not a generic solution, but it works for me on Linux and > Windows > > def getMacAddress(): > if sys.platform == 'win32': > for line in os.popen("ipconfig /all"): > if line.lstrip().startswith('Physical Address'): > mac = line.split(':')[1].strip().replace('-',':') > break > else: > for line in os.popen("/sbin/ifconfig"): > if line.find('Ether') > -1: > mac = line.split()[4] > break > return mac > Thanks, but how can I associate the result to the socket, assuming that is the reason for wanting to get at the MAC ?
I see that some *nix implementation use fcntl/ioctl to read this info out of the file handle of a socket but these modules don't exist on Windows(may be some other platform as well). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list