Use the format() function instead, as it gives you much more control over the output.įor example, format(value, '012x') formats the integer value to a 12-digit hexadecimal (using lowercase digits), padding out the result to the minimum width with leading zeros as needed: > mac_value = 0x237702d2ff9b Note that the purpose of the hex() function is to produce a hexadecimal integer literal (a string that can be used in Python source code), which is why it returns a hex value with the 0x prefix.

# Remove/slice the '0x' off the begining from using hex(). # use xor of 02 on the 2nd most significant hex char. # cast the hex string to an base-16 int for math safety. # remove the most common macaddr delimiters, dots, dashes, etc.

#!/usr/bin/pythonĬonvert mac addr to ipv6 link local (rfc 4862) I'm using python 2.7, but my Linux distro is soon to switch to 3.x.

is the code future proof to 3.4 python?Įspecially with casting a string to an int, and finally back to hex, seems overly weird.Īlso, I did recently discover some IP related factory functions, but so far I've not discovered any builtin way of doing this.is there a more pythonic way of doing this?.One of the ways I learn a new scripting language is to implement a subroutine to convert a network MAC addr into the IPv6 link-local address, as described in RFC 4862.

Convert mac address from hexadecimal