[Pythonmac-SIG] Any chance of getting this to run on OSX?

Jan Flyborg jan.flyborg at gmail.com
Mon Feb 27 14:03:32 CET 2012


Since you probably are going to develop platform dependent code
anyway, why not just parse the output from the following command?

system_profiler -xml SPNetworkDataType

Cheers
    //Jan

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 07:24, Leo <sdl.web at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2012-02-27 08:44 +0800, Nicholas Riley wrote:
>> That script is an excellent example of how not to do things; it makes
>> assumptions about constant values and structure layout that may not
>> hold true on one operating system, much less between operating
>> systems.
>>
>> You are almost certainly better off using another mechanism.  What
>> interface information are you trying to obtain?
>
> The interface names and the addresses bound to them. Much like
> network-interface-list (http://paste.pocoo.org/show/556841/) in Emacs,
> which returns:
>
>  (("en1" . [10 0 0 114 0]) ("lo0" . [127 0 0 1 0]))
>
> Leo
>
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