Make interface with iwlist more rubust

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Make interface with iwlist more rubust #19

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Screen-scraping is not best practice.  Better to link against iwlib.so at
run time and call its functions, perhaps using ctypes or a python module.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by fmarkham@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2010 at 10:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago

Actually, wicd works internally using screenscraping.  Better to just use their
well-tested regexes.

Regexes at: 
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~wicd-devel/wicd/trunk/annotate/head%3A/wicd/wnettoo
ls.py

Original comment by fmarkham@gmail.com on 30 Mar 2010 at 10:23

Changed title: Make interface with iwlist more rubust