RE - Parsing ipconfig /all output - question

[joblack]

I'm trying to get the first MAC address from the ipconfig /all output.
Unfortunately you can't just search for Physical Address because the
name is only valid in the English Windows version.

Here a test which isn't working:

import subprocess
import re
p = subprocess.Popen('ipconfig /all', shell = True, stdout
=subprocess.PIPE)
p.wait()
rawtxt = p.stdout.read()
print rawtxt
p = re.findall(r'(%X%X-){5}%X%X',rawtxt)
print p

Any ideas?

 

[Tim Pinkawa]

I'm trying to get the first MAC address from the ipconfig /all output.
Unfortunately you can't just search for Physical Address because the
name is only valid in the English Windows version.

Any ideas?

(accidentally sent original to Johannes only)

This filters out all the false positives on my machine (Windows 7 x64 English):

import subprocess
import re
p = subprocess.Popen('ipconfig /all', shell = True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE)
p.wait()
rawtxt = p.stdout.read()
print rawtxt

p = re.findall(r'\s([0-9A-F-]{17})\s',rawtxt)
print p

Tim

 

[joblack]

Great - seems to work =) ...