Just learned a new technique…
physical_address = 'Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 38-00-25-9F-58-30' # Get only the mac address print(physical_address.split()[-1])
This technique is very smart, first arrange the string into a list by using split method, the split method will store each string into a list when a whitespace is found.
['Physical', 'Address.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', '.', ':', '38-00-25-9F-58-30']
Then return the last element of the list by using [-1]
So by expanding this knowledge, I can change the mac address representation on different operating systems.
physical_address = 'Physical Address. . . . . . . . . : 38-00-25-9F-58-30'
# Get only the mac address
# Windows mac address format
mac_address_windows = physical_address.split()[-1]
# Linux mac address format
mac_address_linux = mac_address_windows.replace('-', ':')
# Cisco's mac address format
mac_address_cisco = mac_address_windows.replace('-', '')
mac_address_cisco = mac_address_cisco[0:4] + '.' + mac_address_cisco[4:8] + '.' + mac_address_cisco[8:12]
print(mac_address_windows)
print(mac_address_linux)
print(mac_address_cisco.lower())
Result will look like this:
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