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Author	nvetoshkin
Recipients	Arfrever, Keith.Dart, eric.araujo, kdart, knny-myer, nvetoshkin, orsenthil, pitrou, r.david.murray
Date	2011-02-05.19:14:59
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Message-id	<1296933300.26.0.362233450347.issue11063@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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Maybe I understood and ctypes ImportError simply must be handled and fallbacked to something else. But there are only 3 ways of getting MAC address: 1. using popen 2. using ctypes and native calls 3. using C API and performing native calls in extension And ctypes seems to be the best choice: it's portable across Python VMs (better that 3) and faster (better than 1).

Maybe I understood and ctypes ImportError simply must be handled and fallbacked to something else. But there are only 3 ways of getting MAC address:
1. using popen
2. using ctypes and native calls
3. using C API and performing native calls in extension

And ctypes seems to be the best choice: it's portable across Python VMs (better that 3) and faster (better than 1).

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-02-05 19:15:00	nvetoshkin	set	recipients: + nvetoshkin, orsenthil, kdart, pitrou, eric.araujo, Arfrever, r.david.murray, knny-myer, Keith.Dart
2011-02-05 19:15:00	nvetoshkin	set	messageid: <1296933300.26.0.362233450347.issue11063@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
2011-02-05 19:14:59	nvetoshkin	link	issue11063 messages
2011-02-05 19:14:59	nvetoshkin	create