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Re: get my ip address

From	tony <lists@vanderhoff.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: get my ip address
Date	2019-02-16 11:20 +0100
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On 15/02/2019 16:52, David Wright wrote:
> On Fri 15 Feb 2019 at 12:02:20 (+0100), Markus Schönhaber wrote:
>> Tony, 15.2.2019, 11:11:29 +0100:
>>
>>> Debian 9. I need to read my IPv6 address into a python script.
>>>
>>> I am aware that I can call ip a and parse the result. The parsing,
>>> whilst quite achievable, is slightly tricky, but I can manage the RE, so
>>>  that's not my question.
>>>
>>> Is there any other way to obtain this data, maybe from /sys?
>>
>> Take a look at this:
>> https://pypi.org/project/netifaces/
>>
>> This is packaged on stretch as python[3]-netifaces
> 
> That's probably best if your destination is a Python program.
> 
> Otherwise, for scripting, it's easy to overlook   ip -o a
> which makes parsing much easier. But note that you may then
> need to be more specific, eg compare
> 
> $ ip a
> 
> with
> 
> $ ip -o l
> $ ip -o a

Thanks to all who replied, I hadn't expected pointers to the various
python libraries, for which I am very grateful. All I asked for was a
simple way of directly accessing the hardware, but that does not seem to
be available.

Failing that, I had indeed overlooked the -o flag oo ip a, which indeed
makes parsing easier. However, it does appear that netifaces offers  the
most usable solution, so a cigar to David Wright for this suggestion.

Cheers, Tony

Thread

get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-15 11:40 +0100
  Re: get my ip address <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-15 11:50 +0100
  Re: get my ip address Markus Schönhaber <debian-user@list-post.mks-mail.de> - 2019-02-15 12:10 +0100
    Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-15 17:00 +0100
      Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-16 01:00 +0100
        Re: get my ip address John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-02-16 03:20 +0100
          Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-16 06:30 +0100
            Re: get my ip address John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-02-17 05:00 +0100
              Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-20 05:40 +0100
      Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-16 11:20 +0100
        Re: get my ip address David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-20 05:40 +0100
  Re: get my ip address Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-19 16:20 +0100
    Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-19 16:50 +0100
      Re: get my ip address Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-19 17:40 +0100
        Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-19 18:10 +0100
        Re: get my ip address Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-19 18:10 +0100
        Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-20 11:40 +0100
          Re: get my ip address Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-20 13:30 +0100
            Re: get my ip address tony <lists@vanderhoff.org> - 2019-02-20 14:00 +0100
  Re: get my ip address Jonathan de Boyne Pollard <J.deBoynePollard-newsgroups@NTLWorld.COM> - 2019-02-28 15:40 +0100

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