gistfile1.txt

import commands, re
import pprint

class Engine:

  def __init__(self):
    self.data = dict()
  
  def updateSourceEvent(self):
		self.updateData()
		self.setData("wireless", "strength",  self.strength)
		self.setData("wireless", "ip",  self.ip)
		self.setData("wireless", "essid",  self.essid)
		self.setData("wireless", "gateway", self.gateway)

  def updateData(self):
		interface = commands.getoutput("cat /proc/net/wireless | tail -n1 | awk '{print$1}' | cut -d: -f1")
		blob = commands.getoutput("/sbin/iwconfig " + interface)
		match = re.search("Link Quality=(\d+)/(\d+)", blob)
		self.strength = 100 * int(match.group(1)) / int(match.group(2))
		match = re.search("ESSID:\"(.+)\"", blob)
		self.essid = match.group(1)
		self.ip = commands.getoutput("/sbin/ip addr show %s | grep inet | head -n1 | awk '{print$2}' | cut -d/ -f1" % interface)
		self.gateway = commands.getoutput("netstat -rn | grep %s | tail -n1 | awk '{print$2}'" % interface)
		
  def setData(self, org, key, value):
    self.data[org + "." + key] = value
    
engine = Engine()
engine.updateSourceEvent()

pprint.pprint(engine.data)