On Sun, 26 Aug 2001 11:06:14 -0400, Scott Syms <Scott.Syms@[...].ca> 
wrote :

> Hi, folks-
> 
> Wondering if anyone knew how to grab the mac address of a network card from
> within Python.

Well, the appended programm prints the mac addess for the first adapter
on Windows. I guess you'll have to fiddle it into a python extension
yourself.  Or use it in a pipe like so:
macaddr=os.popen("p1.exe").read()

Or just parse the output of  os.popen("ipconfig /all").read()
for "Physical Address", i.e.

re.search("Physical Address.*:(.{18,18})",os.popen("ipconfig /all").read(),re.M).group(1)


<snip> 

#include "stdafx.h"
#include <stdio.h> 
#include <windows.h> 
#include <IpTypes.h> 
#include <Iphlpapi.h> 

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
	IP_ADAPTER_INFO* ai;
	unsigned long lai;
	int i,rc;
	lai=10000;
	ai=(IP_ADAPTER_INFO*)malloc(lai);
	rc=GetAdaptersInfo(ai,&lai);
	if (rc==0)
	for (i=0;i<6;i++)
		printf("%02x ",ai-> Address[i]);
	return 0;

}

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