python_arptable 0.0.1

Python simple arp table reader

Python simple arp table reader

• Free software: BSD license

• Documentation: https://python_arptable.readthedocs.org.

Features

• Export ARP Table on linux as a dictionary.

Usage

arp_table exports two main things:

• ARPTABLE constant, as it was when the package was imported

• get_arp_table() function, returning latest arp table.

>>> from arp_table import ARPTABLE
>>> print(ARPTABLE)

[{'Device': 'eth0',
  'Flags': '0x2',
  'HW address': '00:12:79:d2:b9:67',
  'HW type': '0x1',
  'IP address': '10.3.0.1',
  'Mask': '*'}]

>>> print(get_arp_table())

[{'Device': 'eth0',
  'Flags': '0x2',
  'HW address': '00:12:79:d2:b9:67',
  'HW type': '0x1',
  'IP address': '10.3.0.1',
  'Mask': '*'}]

Disclaimer

This is a small, simple yet quite useful library. I’ve seen a lot of posts of people struggling with arp-table reading in python.

With this library, you can just

pip install arp_table

and enjoy!

History

0.0.1 (2015-06-14)

• First release on PyPI.