[Tutor] How can I get the hostid of a computer?

[Magnus Lycka]

At 16:23 2002-10-18 -0700, Lance wrote:
>Any advice would be appreciated.

I don't know of any OS independent way.
I'm not even sure what you mean by hostid.
Host name? Domain name? NETBIOS name?

If you have a way to get this "hostid" from
the command line in the OS, it's trivial
to get it from within Python.

E.g. in Linux:
 >>> import os
 >>> host = os.popen('uname -n').read().strip()
 >>> print host
palanga.ume1.thinkware.se



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