[pkg-wpa-devel] Re: Python/WPA Bindings

[Jeremy L. Moles]

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 13:18 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 09:10:23PM +1000, Kel Modderman wrote:
> > >http://downloads.emperorlinux.com/contrib/pywpa/
> > >http://downloads.emperorlinux.com/contrib/pyiw
> > 
> > This sounds really cool. And something that I think would be worth 
> > having in debian. What do other pkg-wpa people think?

Ah, sorry--wasn't even aware of this lists existence. :)

> I've had a look at them in the past, and thought about packaging them
> for debian. I abandoned the idea because it seems (at least at that
> time), that no application are using that bindings yet, and I currently
> don't don't have enough time to develop myself such applications. That's
> why i didn't file itp's yet.
> 
> If there are some applications actually using these bindings, I'm happy
> to (co-)maintain these libraries in the pkg-wpa team.

At the moment the only application that uses these is an application
we're developing in-house for our customers to use Wireless/WPA without
any fuss. It's not nearly done yet (since we work mostly w/ IPW cards
and spend the majority of our time not writing good code but rather
working around their __ridiculous__ bugs), but it's certainly shaping
up.

Here's a screeny:

http://downloads.emperorlinux.com/contrib/emptool/screenshot-01.png

> > I know next to nothing about python, but I've just bought a book (Python 
> > in a Nutshell, O'Reilly) and am keen to learn a bit. One of the 
> > stumbling blocks for me when approaching a new programming adventure is 
> > applying it to something useful, and py{wpa,iw} look like the perfect 
> > catalyst for me to get excited about learning python (because I also 
> > have an unnatural fascination with wireless devices).
> > 
> > BTW, can you point me to other python resources that have been of value 
> > for yourself?
> 
> I found diveintopython quite useful.
> 
> Gruesse,
> 	Reinhard
>