How to get meaningful network interface names instead of GUIDs with netifaces under Windows?

Question

I use the netifaces module.

import netifaces
print netifaces.interfaces()

but this shows the result below:

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Answer 1

Extending on MaxU answer

More accurate/refined way

Select Index from Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration WHERE IPEnabled = True or (ServiceName<>'' 
                                                    AND ServiceName<>'AsyncMac' 
                                                    AND ServiceName<>'VMnetx' AND ServiceName<>'VMnetadapter' AND ServiceName<>'Rasl2tp' AND ServiceName<>'msloop' AND ServiceName<>'PptpMiniport' 
                                                    AND ServiceName<>'Raspti' AND ServiceName<>'NDISWan' AND ServiceName<>'NdisWan4' AND ServiceName<>'RasPppoe' 
                                                    AND ServiceName<>'NdisIP' AND Description<>'PPP Adapter.') AND MACAddress is not NULL

and then fire a query with respect to

SELECT * FROM Win32_NetworkAdapter where index=