import fcntl
import array
import struct
import socket
import platform
"""
global constants. If you don't like 'em here,
move 'em inside the function definition.
"""
SIOCGIFCONF = 0x8912
MAXBYTES = 8096
def localifs():
"""
Used to get a list of the up interfaces and associated IP addresses
on this machine (linux only).
Returns:
List of interface tuples. Each tuple consists of
(interface name, interface IP)
"""
global SIOCGIFCONF
global MAXBYTES
arch = platform.architecture()[0]
# I really don't know what to call these right now
var1 = -1
var2 = -1
if arch == '32bit':
var1 = 32
var2 = 32
elif arch == '64bit':
var1 = 16
var2 = 40
else:
raise OSError("Unknown architecture: %s" % arch)
sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
names = array.array('B', '\0' * MAXBYTES)
outbytes = struct.unpack('iL', fcntl.ioctl(
sock.fileno(),
SIOCGIFCONF,
struct.pack('iL', MAXBYTES, names.buffer_info()[0])
))[0]
namestr = names.tostring()
return [(namestr[i:i+var1].split('\0', 1)[0], socket.inet_ntoa(namestr[i+20:i+24])) \
for i in xrange(0, outbytes, var2)]
print localifs()