How to make a GUID with plain python

[matt]

And the Mac address from a modem would be ?
The Mac address from an IDSN converter would be?

.....in a lot of instances Mac addresses are just not there !!!


On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Michael Lausch wrote:
> gogo at bluedynamics.com (Georg Gogo. BERNHARD) writes:
> 
> > Hello!
> > 
> > I am looking for a way to create a global unique identifier / UUID
> > with python. I found a way to do this with ActivePython in Windows,
> > but I need a solution for other platforms, too. (In ActivePython one
> > can use >>> pythoncom.CreateGuid <<< to get a global unique
> > identifier.)
> > 
> > The GUIDs use the MAC adress of the machine they are created at in
> > their algorithm. I start to think that this can not be done in python,
> > but I still hope that I am wrong in that point.
> 
> 
> use os.popen('/sbin/ifconfig -a','r') and regexp match the output for
> mac addresses.
> 
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