[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 HTH Frank Millman -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list