I’d like to get an id unique to a computer with Python on Windows and Linux. It could be the CPU ID, the motherboard serial, … or anything else.
I looked at several modules (pycpuid, psi, …) without luck.
Any idea on how to do that?
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I’d like to get an id unique to a computer with Python on Windows and Linux. It could be the CPU ID, the motherboard serial, … or anything else.
I looked at several modules (pycpuid, psi, …) without luck.
Any idea on how to do that?
How about using the MAC address as unique id?
The discussion here Obtain MAC Address from Devices using Python shows how to obtain the MAC address