network protocols

[Tarek Ziadé]

On 6/13/12 8:33 PM, Christian Heimes wrote:
> Am 13.06.2012 16:56, schrieb Christian Heimes:
>> Am 13.06.2012 13:41, schrieb Tarek Ziadé:
>>> Hey
>>>
>>> I was surprised not to find any way to list all protocol names listed in
>>> /etc/protocols in Python
>>>
>>> We have
>>>
>>> socket.getprotobyname(NAME)
>>>
>>> But there's no way to get the list of names
>>>
>>> Any ideas if this is available in the stdlib somehwere ?
>> No, I can't find any reference to the relevant NSS APIs in the Python
>> code. You can easily roll your own with ctypes:
> PS: You can also parse the output of "getent protocols". As for all name
> services you shouldn't parse the file as other sources (ldap, dns, nis,
> databases) can provide additional information. See man nsswitch.conf
>
> Christian
>
Thanks for the pointers -- I was going to 
open('etc/protocols').readlines() :)