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

If you know the IP Address which your Interface uses, you could simply do something like this:

import netifaces as ni
def get_interfaces():
    ifaces = ni.interfaces()
    for iface in ifaces:
        try:
            ip = ni.ifaddresses(iface)[ni.AF_INET][0]["addr"]
            print(f"IP: {ip} from Interface {iface}")
        except:
            pass