Python WiFi is a Python module that provides read and write access to a wireless network card's capabilities using the Linux Wireless Extensions.
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Python WiFi is a Python module that provides read and write access to a wireless network card's capabilities using the Linux Wireless Extensions. It was initially developed by Roman Joost with advice from Guido Goldstein of Infrae. It is currently maintained by Sean Robinson.
More information is available at http://pythonwifi.tuxfamily.org. A mailing list for announcements and developer discussion is available at pythonwifi@lists.tuxfamily.org.
Check the ./docs/feature_matrix_*.txt files for a detailed list of what is implemented. This may not work with 64-bit Linux kernels, I would appreciate reports of success or failure on such systems.
The examples directory contains iwconfig.py and iwlist.py, which are sample re-implementations of iwconfig and iwlist. These scripts use the pythonwifi module to duplicate the functionality of those programs as closely as possible.
./docs/ - supporting documentation ./docs/api/ - documentation of the pythonwifi API (not yet there) ./docs/logos/ - the Python WiFi logo in various formats ./examples/ - sample uses of pythonwifi module ./pythonwifi/ - the module source code ./INSTALL - installation instructions ./Makefile - convenience commands for developers ./README - this file ./setup.py - installation script
The methods in the Wireless class are the highest level interace. An example program, which prints the ESSID and the association mode:
from pythonwifi.iwlibs import Wireless wifi = Wireless('eth1') wifi.getEssid() 'romanofski' wifi.getMode() 'Managed'
pythonwifi is licensed under LGPLv2+, however, the examples (e.g. iwconfig.py and iwlist.py) are licensed under GPLv2+.
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Python WiFi is a Python module that provides read and write access to a wireless network card's capabilities using the Linux Wireless Extensions.
We found that python-wifi demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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