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

It's a lot easier in PowerShell:

Get-WmiObject -Class Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration | 
    Select-Object Description, SettingID, MACAddress | 
    Format-Table -AutoSize