get mac/ physical address of network card with python

[Grant Edwards]

On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:06:14 -0400, Scott Syms <Scott.Syms at pwgsc.gc.ca> wrote:

>Wondering if anyone knew how to grab the mac address of a network card from
>within Python.

Well, this works under Linux (but I don't think many other
systems support raw sockets):

  s = socket.socket(socket.AF_PACKET,socket.SOCK_RAW)
  s.bind(("eth0",9999))
  mac = s.getsockname()[-1]
  
  print ":".join(["%02x" % ord(x) for x in mac])


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