[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>>Steve Holden wrote: >>> >>> >>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Steve Holden wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Why should you want to associate a MAC address with a socket? Each >>>>>>interface has an IP address, and it's that you should be using. >>>>> >>>>>Say for example I want to find out the MAC if a particular interface in >>>>>python. >>>>> >>>> >>>>When you are asked "why would you want to do something" it isn't >>>>normally considered sufficient to reply "suppose I want to do >>>>something". I'm still trying to find out what use case (apart from >>>>curiosity) drives this need to know. >>>> >>> >>>That is nothing but curiosity of why there is no such thing. I didn't >>>start a thread with "what the [EMAIL PROTECTED] hell that I cannot get MAC >>>address >>>through the socket module". >>> >>>And I answer things the way I want to, if it does fit your expected >>>answer, there is nothing I can do. I am not here to convince you. >>> >> >>Temper, temper. >> > > you can read my temper from what I write ? > Nope, but I can make inferences, whose correctness you can choose to lie or tell the truth about. I was merely trying to make the point that your response failed to further anybody's understanding of anything. I'm not really bothered *why* you do what you do.
I asked "Why should you want to associate a MAC address with a socket?" and you replied "Say for example I want to find out the MAC if a particular interface in python". Fine. But if you don't want to engage in a dialogue, why bother posting at all? regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC www.holdenweb.com PyCon TX 2006 www.python.org/pycon/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list