Docs: What is "snic"

[guettli]

Please explain what "snic" means in the context of psutil.

Up to now I could not find a glossary in the docs.

[giampaolo]

I suppose you refer to the namedtuple name of net_if_addrs and net_if_stats functions. It stands for "system network interface card". With that said, nameduple names are not really important. They are there only because namedtuple construction requires them.

[guettli]

I am not the first person who has this question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/45024490/what-is-a-snic-in-the-python-psutil-module

But I don't want to make more noise than necessary. If someone searches for "snic psutil" will find this issue and will find what he searched for.

Thank you for your answer.

[giampaolo]

I see. I agree the name is a bit misleading indeed. It should be snicaddr.

[giampaolo]

Done.