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
