Get 'ifconfig' information via Python

[David N. Welton]

So, I think I'm getting close...

import fcntl
import IN
import struct

s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)

res = fcntl.ioctl(s, IN.SIOCSIFHWADDR, ??????)

I can't seem to find what goes in ?????.

Is this the right way to be doing things?  I suppose I can always go
pull apart the sources for ifconfig itself, and make a .so that does
what I need, but I get the feeling that I can do what I need from
within Python.

Yeah, I could popen ifconfig, too, but that's ugly.

Downloading python sources now to see what I can see in the fcntl
module...

Thanks,
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