A common say in Linux arena is "when you have an itch, just scratch it".
My itch is that tools like ifconfig and iw are great, but in an
automated test environment it kind of sucks to parse output, which is
confirmed by blurb from iw: "Do NOT screenscrape this tool, we don't
consider its output stable.".
Ever since my first contact with Python I tend to favor it over other
scripting alternatives so I decided to scratch my itch with that and
another old acquaintance called SWIG. With those I went to create
py80211. A first attempt was to have SWIG create a wrapper API directly
exposing the libnl-3 API, but that did not feel comfortable in a
scripting environment. So the level of abstraction is a bit higher. It
is just in a kick-off state (eg. can only send u32 attributes), but I
decided to push it to github anyway.
https://github.com/arend/py80211
Regards,
Arend
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