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created recipe for py3k-six
author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Mon Oct 17 07:54:33 2022 +0100 (20 months ago)
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     1.4 +It's been annoying me for some time that there's no easy way to get the address(es)
     1.5 +of the machine's network interfaces from Python.
     1.6 +There is a good reason for this difficulty, which is that it is virtually impossible
     1.7 +to do so in a portable manner.
     1.8 +However, it seems to me that there should be a package you can easy_install that
     1.9 +will take care of working out the details of doing so on the machine you're using,
    1.10 +then you can get on with writing Python code without concerning yourself with the
    1.11 +nitty gritty of system-dependent low-level networking APIs.
    1.12 +
    1.13 +This package attempts to solve that problem.