[Pythonmac-SIG] Getting Sharing name of the Macintosh viaPython?

[brad.allen@omsdal.com]

I've long been successfully using this hack I found at macosxhints.com:

/usr/bin/awk '/ComputerName/ {{{getline} print 
substr($0,12,length($0)-20)} exit}' 
/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

The output of this command can of course be parsed by Python.

A better way would be to use plistlib to parse the preferences.plist file, 
but I just never
got around to it since the awk thing has been working reliably.


Brad Allen
IT Desktop Support

brad.allen at omsdal.com

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