Get the ipv6 address from a interface

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> which works great. But i am not enough into python to port that to
> ipv6. It has to work under linux only. Any help is appreciated.

Not sure how universal this is, but I would read /proc/net/if_inet6.
At least, that's what ifconfig does, and it seems to work fine.

martin at mira:~$ cat /proc/net/if_inet6
fe80000000000000000000004d804137 1c 40 20 80    sixxs
fe80000000000000020d61fffe543e15 02 40 20 80      sis
00000000000000000000000000000001 01 80 10 80       lo
200106f809000a850000000000000002 1c 40 00 80    sixxs

Regards,
Martin