ixconfig

Quick and simple ifconfig and iwconfig parsing.

Install

pip install ixconfig

Usage

import ixconfig

# ifconfig

# returns an Ifc object - runs `ifconfig`
ifc = ixconfig.Ifc()
# which behaves like a dict
assert ifc['wlan0']['ip'] == "192.168.1.237"
# or an attrdict
assert ifc.wlan0.ip == "192.168.1.237"

# when you pass in an interface, it runs `ifconfig wlan0`
ifc = ixconfig.Ifc('wlan0')
# and then you can just access the attributes directly
assert ifc['ip'] == "192.168.1.237"
assert ifc.ip == "192.168.1.237"

# iwconfig

iwc = ixconfig.Iwc()
assert iwc['wlan0']['quality'] == 92.0
assert iwc.wlan0.quality == 92.0

iwc = ixconfig.Iwc('wlan0')
assert iwc['quality'] == 92.0
assert iwc.quality == 92.0

Notes

This was code that I factored out of another project a while back. Eventually, I think this functionality should be covered ifcfg, but they don't handle iwconfig at the moment.

So until then, this package covers very basic parsing for both ifconfig and iwconfig.

Example Outputs

ifc = ixconfig.Ifc()
iwc = ixconfig.Iwc()
print(ifc)
print(iwc)

( $ ifconfig ) {
    "docker0": {
        "broadcast": "172.17.255.255",
        "ip": "172.17.0.1",
        "ipv6": "fe80::42:f2ff:fe23:bb38",
        "mac": "02:42:f2:23:bb:38",
        "mtu": 1500,
        "name": "docker0",
        "netmask": "255.255.0.0",
        "rx_dropped": 0,
        "rx_errors": 0,
        "rx_overruns": 0,
        "rx_packets": 21326,
        "tx_carrier": 0,
        "tx_collisions": 0,
        "tx_dropped": 0,
        "tx_errors": 0,
        "tx_overruns": 0,
        "tx_packets": 30842
    },
    ...
    "wlan0": {
        "broadcast": "192.168.1.255",
        "ip": "192.168.1.237",
        "ipv6": "fe80::2998:5b3c:8ffb:a03d",
        "mac": "dc:a6:32:5d:df:ce",
        "mtu": 1500,
        "name": "wlan0",
        "netmask": "255.255.255.0",
        "rx_dropped": 0,
        "rx_errors": 0,
        "rx_overruns": 0,
        "rx_packets": 1960938,
        "tx_carrier": 0,
        "tx_collisions": 0,
        "tx_dropped": 0,
        "tx_errors": 0,
        "tx_overruns": 0,
        "tx_packets": 2790429
    }
}

( $ iwconfig ) {
    "wlan0": {
        "access_point": "A0:8E:78:59:45:D2",
        "bitrate": 72.2,
        "bitrate_unit": "Mb/s",
        "freq": 2.462,
        "freq_unit": "GHz",
        "mode": "Managed",
        "name": "wlan0",
        "power_mgmt": "on",
        "quality": 50.0,
        "quality_ratio": 0.7142857142857143,
        "ssid": "MySpectrumWiFicc-2G",
        "strength": -60.0,
        "strength_unit": "dBm"
    }
}