On Apr 4, 2020, at 12:45, Pete Wicken <petewic...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Agreed that this could be achieved by a third party library; and probably > already is
PS, I’ve needed something like this a few times in the past, so I can offer some vague memories of what’s available. I’ve mostly used netifaces, which is amazing and does all the low-level stuff you’d want and is more cross-platform than you’d believe possible. But its API isn’t very ipaddress-like; it’s mostly dicts of strings and enum ints, and most of what it does isn’t relevant here. There’s a library that I believe is called netaddr (and I think it’s the one with that name on PyPI), which took Google’s ipaddr and expanded it to add MAC/EUI and various other kinds of addresses. If the author is willing, and if it’s solid enough, I’d bet that stripping it down to just MAC and changing the API to parallel ipaddress instead of ipaddr would be a lot easier. I’ve also used QtNetwork in a GUI app. That obviously isn’t as amenable to borrowing, but if there are any design questions that come up, looking at how Qt does it (and whether they have a billion bug reports/feature requests complaining about it) can be helpful. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/2457LTHHJ7YBWY7DA5S5CVCZ7OPNWF32/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
