The original netifaces was abandonned by it's maintainer, leaving us without the option to get network addresses of any kind in Python. Unfortunately, the original sources are more akin to arcane magic, so picking where it's been left off is a difficult task.
I decided to rewrite netifaces, keeping the almost exact same API and adding the following:
- Support for future python versions
- Type annotations
- Maybe a more "queriable" API in the future
This project aims to be a drop-in replacement for those project who use netifaces, but I do not
guarantee anything.
- The
gatewaysAPI is only working if your system has a/proc/net/routefile or theiptool - The
windowsgateways API is non-functional
For now the API is the same as the original netifaces, so please refer to it.
Install:
pip install netifaces2Import:
>>> import netifaces
>>> netifaces.interfaces()
...
>>> netifaces.ifaddresses('en0')
...
>>> netifacs.gateways()
...The gateways function does not support indexing through the default special key. This is because it makes a
sane typing definition difficult to write and be understandable. Instead, if you want the same functionality,
the following is exposed:
>>> netifaces.default_gateway()
...The result will be the default gateway for each interface type. The result may be an empty dict if no default route is set.
The level of completness differs a little bit with the original version; some
address families might not yet be available and PEER addresses are not
reported for now. If you need a feature, open an issue and I will do my best to
add it.
Gateways also returned the interfaces indexed by integer values. This is a bit
odd (IMO) since the integers values for the interface types are
system-dependent. Enum values with a more semantic meaning are now used (they
are still tied to linux numbers), but you can use old_api=True in
their call to get the al45air-style keys back.
In the previous version of netifaces the AF_ constants' value were assigned
to be platform independent. This has the nice effect of abstracting the OS when
accessing the information of a network layer. However after consideration, it
does not feel like the right place to provide abstraction. If you update your
project's dependencies to this version of netifaces, be wary of this change.
For instance, on linux you may need to replace AF_LINK with AF_PACKET to get
mac addresses.
In the future, an extra API will allow accessing a specific layer's information by querying for it, without using the platform's constant.
Building Linux, Windows and macOS cp37-abi3 wheels (requires Python 3.7 and newer)
Install using pip:
python -m pip install netifaces2
Linux cp37-abi3 wheels are built on manylinux2_17 aka manylinux2014 and require pip>=19.3
cp36m-manylinux2_17 wheels are unsupported and are being built only as a fallback
for systems with only Python 3.6 available.
This software is distributed under a MIT license.