MACADDR(3)

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✨ MACADDR ✨

okay bestie, so this is the macaddr page from the macaddr 1.0.1 manual (section 3, library functions, you know the vibe 💅) and it's literally all about the packet.link.macaddr MacAddr module. it's short, it's sweet, and it's giving extremely useful. let's get into it 🦋

🌸 NAME 🌸

packet.link.macaddr — the MacAddr module. that's it, that's the whole name, and honestly? iconic 👑

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so what you do is you create an object that represents a MAC address. and how do you feed it that address? two ways, bestie: either as a series of hexadecimal numbers, or using the classic ":" notation. pick your fighter 💅

and here's the cute part — it also gives you a whole mechanism for comparing this object with a regular string. so your MacAddr object and your plain old strings can just… chat. vibe check passed ✨

🎀 CLASSES 🎀

👑 class MacAddr(builtins.str)

a MacAddr address object. it's literally a subclass of builtins.str, so you already know it's got string energy fr fr.

Usage:

from packet.link.macaddr import MacAddr

mac = MacAddr('E4CE8F589FF4')

and here's the slay: the following expressions are equivalent 🫶

mac == 'E4CE8F589FF4'
mac == 'e4ce8f589ff4'
mac == 'e4:ce:8f:58:9f:f4'

like, all three of those hit the same. case? doesn't matter. colons? don't care. that's the whole point, bestie 😭💖

🔥 Methods defined here:

  • __eq__(self, other) — compares two MAC addresses and returns True if both are equal. that's it. no notes.
  • __ne__(self, other) — compares two MAC addresses and returns False if both are equal. yeah it's the opposite one, we love a matching set 💅

⭐ Static methods defined here:

  • __new__(cls, mac) — creates a new instance by converting the input string into a persistent representation of a MAC address. so you hand it a string, it hands you back the glow-up version. main character energy honestly 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

no known bugs. we ate and left no crumbs. periodt 🎀

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Jorge Mora (mora@netapp.com) — thank you for your service, king 👑

and that's the whole page! this was pulled from NFStest 3.2, dated 21 March 2023. bye bestie, go compare some MAC addresses, ily 🦋💜

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