how to traverse network devices in our system?

[Franck Pommereau]

> Yes, it is Linux. I was just googling and found that there are kudzu
> bindings for python. From that i can query kudzu for any configured and
> unconfigured device (i hope so). is there any other method available
> other kudzu python bindings ?

I do it using DBus/Hal, for instance:

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import dbus

system_bus = dbus.SystemBus()
hal_manager_obj = system_bus.get_object('org.freedesktop.Hal',
                                        '/org/freedesktop/Hal/Manager')
hal_manager = dbus.Interface(hal_manager_obj,
                             'org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager')

for udi in hal_manager.FindDeviceByCapability("net") :
    obj = system_bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.Hal", udi)
    dev = dbus.Interface(obj, 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device')
    print dev.GetProperty("net.interface"),
    print dev.GetProperty("net.address")
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Cheers,
Franck