networking - How to get Network Interface Card names in Python?

Question

I am totally new to python programming so please be patient with me.

Is there anyway to get the names of the NIC cards in the machine etc. eth0, lo? If so how do you do it?

I have researched but so far I have only found codes to get IP addresses and MAC addresses only such as

import socket
socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())

Advice on the codes would really be appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

On Linux, you can just list the links in /sys/class/net/ by

os.listdir('/sys/class/net/')

Not sure if this works on all distributions.