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@vstinner vstinner commented Mar 17, 2020

uuid.getnode() now skips IPv6 addresses with the same string length
than a MAC address (17 characters): only use MAC addresses.

https://bugs.python.org/issue39991

uuid.getnode() now skips IPv6 addresses with the same string length
than a MAC address (17 characters): only use MAC addresses.
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I tested manually: this PR fix my issue on FreeBSD https://bugs.python.org/issue39991

@vstinner vstinner merged commit eb886db into python:master Mar 17, 2020
@vstinner vstinner deleted the uuid_ipv6 branch March 17, 2020 14:51
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Thanks @vstinner for the PR 🌮🎉.. I'm working now to backport this PR to: 3.8.
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Sorry, @vstinner, I could not cleanly backport this to 3.8 due to a conflict.
Please backport using cherry_picker on command line.
cherry_picker eb886db1e99a15f15a2342aa496197a5f88fa9c8 3.8

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Oh, Python 3.8 doesn't seem to be affected.

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