How to get Mac address of ethernet port?

[James Harris]

"Andriy Kornatskyy" <andriy.kornatskyy at live.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.5329.1389450993.18130.python-list at python.org...
> Sam,
>
> How about this?
>
> from uuid import getnode as get_mac
> '%012x' % get_mac()

AIUI that will return a mac address even if there isn't one. That may or may 
not suit the OP.

To the OP, depending on what you want to do remember that a machine can have 
more than one mac address and that a mac address can differ from the 
burned-in address (BIA) as some cards allow the effective mac address to be 
changed in software. So it's possible that two machines could show the same 
mac address.

James