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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Tue Nov 01 16:13:12 2022 +0000 (2022-11-01) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/python-netifaces/description.txt Tue Nov 01 16:13:12 2022 +0000 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ 1.4 +It's been annoying me for some time that there's no easy way to get the address(es) 1.5 +of the machine's network interfaces from Python. 1.6 +There is a good reason for this difficulty, which is that it is virtually impossible 1.7 +to do so in a portable manner. 1.8 +However, it seems to me that there should be a package you can easy_install that 1.9 +will take care of working out the details of doing so on the machine you're using, 1.10 +then you can get on with writing Python code without concerning yourself with the 1.11 +nitty gritty of system-dependent low-level networking APIs. 1.12 + 1.13 +This package attempts to solve that problem.