How to get the local mac address?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2005-12-15, bonono at gmail.com <bonono at gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>Why should you want to associate a MAC address with a socket? Each
>>>>interface has an IP address, and it's that you should be using.
>>>
>>> Say for example I want to find out the MAC if a particular
>>> interface in python.
>>
>> When you are asked "why would you want to do something" it
>> isn't normally considered sufficient to reply "suppose I want
>> to do something". I'm still trying to find out what use case
>> (apart from curiosity) drives this need to know.
>
> That is nothing but curiosity of why there is no such thing. I
> didn't start a thread with "what the xyz@!% hell that I cannot
> get MAC address through the socket module".
>
> And I answer things the way I want to, if it does fit your
> expected answer, there is nothing I can do. I am not here to
> convince you.

Taking an attitude like that towards one of the most respected
people in the Python community is bound to be rather counter
productive.  

Nobody owes you any answers, so yes, in fact, you _are_ here to
convince people that you deserve their help.

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