Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Maybe I understood and ctypes ImportError simply must be handled and > fallbacked to something else.
Indeed. > But there are only 3 ways of getting MAC address: > 1. using popen > 2. using ctypes and native calls > 3. using C API and performing native calls in extension > > And ctypes seems to be the best choice: it's portable across Python > VMs (better that 3) and faster (better than 1). Perhaps, but doing without ctypes should still be possible, otherwise it's a regression. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11063> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
