MAC address

Gerhard Häring gerhard at bigfoot.de
Mon May 20 19:24:45 EDT 2002


Ragu Bharadwaj wrote in comp.lang.python:
> Hi Guys,
> Is there a way in Python to obtain a MAC address for another
> computer on the network?

I'd just use os.popen to interface the respective command line utility
for your OS (it's called 'arp' on Windows, Linux, FreeBSD).

Gerhard
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reduce(lambda x,y:x+y,map(lambda x:chr(ord(x)^42),tuple('zS^BED\nX_FOY\x0b')))



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