​# Example-32.py
​#!/usr/bin/env python3
​import sys
​import libvirt
​from xml.etree import ElementTree
​
​domName = 'Fedora22-x86_64-1'
​
​conn = None
​try:
​    conn = libvirt.open("qemu:///system")
​except libvirt.libvirtError as e:
​    print(repr(e), file=sys.stderr)
​    exit(1)
​
​dom = conn.lookupByID(5)
​if dom == None:
​    print('Failed to find the domain '+domName, file=sys.stderr)
​    exit(1)
​
​tree = ElementTree.fromstring(dom.XMLDesc())
​iface = tree.find('devices/interface/target').get('dev')
​stats = dom.interfaceStats(iface)
​print('read bytes:    '+str(stats[0]))
​print('read packets:  '+str(stats[1]))
​print('read errors:   '+str(stats[2]))
​print('read drops:    '+str(stats[3]))
​print('write bytes:   '+str(stats[4]))
​print('write packets: '+str(stats[5]))
​print('write errors:  '+str(stats[6]))
​print('write drops:   '+str(stats[7]))
​
​conn.close()
​exit(0)