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A dead simple, cross-platform Python library to connect to wireless networks.

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wireless

A dead simple, cross-platform Python library to connect to wireless networks.

Description

This library can control a computer’s wireless adapter to connect to a network. Environments currently supported include:

  • Mac OS 10.10

  • Ubuntu 12.04

Setup

sudo pip install wireless

To use the nmcli on Ubuntu, one must have the right permissions in place. A few options are listed here.

Usage

A typical usage looks like this:

from wireless import Wireless
wireless = Wireless()
wireless.connect(ssid='ssid', password='password')

API

  • Wireless() - initialize the wifi driver

  • connect(ssid, password) - attempts to connect to a network and returns True on success

  • current() - returns the name of the current network or None otherwise

Change History

This project uses semantic versioning.

v0.1.1 - 2014/11/24

  • Better documentation formatting for PyPI

v0.1.0 - 2014/11/22

  • Initial release

Contributions

Pull requests to the develop branch are welcomed!

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