[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>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. > > That is nice try. I said I am not, you can fit it as "I am lying". As > for failed or not failed, I don't know what anybody want to get out of > it. I just curious why there is no such function in the socket model, > when I saw a "OS dependent" implementation of getting MAC. Nothing > more. And your answer that there is not sufficient need for putting it > in the standard libary(for the maintainance work needed), answered my > puzzle. > > >>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? > > Huh ? You ask why, I come up with an example. I said it all started > with curiosity, not out of need. I don't see why it is not a dialogue. > You think that it is not because it doesn't meet your expectation > answer(thus your "you are supposed" response), that I can do nothing as > that is your right or thought. > I'm probably just not reading your responses carefully enough.
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