<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Fredrik Lundh</b> <<a href="mailto:fredrik@pythonware.com">fredrik@pythonware.com</a>> wrote:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
6. Combine 2 and 3: require the user to pass in a MAC argument<br> to uuid1, but provide a SlowGetMacAddress helper that wraps<br> the existing code.</blockquote><div><br>That sounds like the right thing to do, although I wouldn't call it "slow"; just let it be documented as 'might not always work and might be inefficient', so there's room to make it the perfect and preferred way to get a MAC address without having to rename it. (Not that I think that's a reliable prospect, but hey ;)
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