Can you advice a Python library to query a lan subnet with SNMP and collect MAC addresses of nodes?

[rusi]

On Apr 15, 3:22 pm, Aldo Ceccarelli <ceccarelli.a... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 15 Apr, 11:54, frankcui <frankcu... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On 04/15/2011 05:00 PM, Aldo Ceccarelli wrote:> Hello All,
> > > in my specific problem I will be happy of a response where possible
> > > to:
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> > > 1. distinguish different operating systems of answering nodes
> > > 2. collect responses of Wyse thin-clients with "Thin OS" to get node
> > > name and MAC address in particular
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> > > Thanks a lot in advance for any sharing / forward to documentation,
> > > products in the area.
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> > > KR Aldo
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> > I think for your interest, if what you described is not a part of your
> > software you are doing but only a specific task, you could use some
> > network scanning tools like nmap to achieve your goals.
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> > there is also a module called pysnmp and you can look into it to see if
> > it meets your need.
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> > frank
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> Thanks Frank! I've browsed pysnmp as you kindly adviced, now looking
> also intohttp://pynetsnmp.sourceforge.net/
> KR Aldo

This is 6-7 year old stale memory (and dont want to start a flame war
but...)
Last I looked at the snmp modules in python I vaguely remember that
the perl modules were so much more feature complete that I had to
switch to perl even though I am generally uncomfortable with perl.