Using iwd.py for a project

[Pranav Jerry <libreinator@disroot.org>]

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Hi!

I'm the developer of naxalnet [1], a shell
script to create a BATMAN-Advanced mesh network without bothering with 
any
configuration.

It uses iwd to create an ad-hoc network and then configures the network 
using
systemd-networkd.
It is currently in alpha stage.

I'm working on rewriting it in python and found out controlling iwd via 
D-Bus
is not easy as I thought. I searched the web for python libraries to 
control iwd
and found out on stackoverflow [2] that the iwd git repo had python3 
examples
in `tests/`.

On further exploring, I found a python library for using iwd,
`autotests/util/iwd.py`. The python scripts used for testing in 
`autotests`
showed it was easy to use and was just what I needed to use for 
connecting
to iwd in my project.

But I couldn't find any information on the library on 
iwd.wiki.kernel.org and
I think it was developed for internal use. The library is not on PyPi 
either.
I want to use the library in naxalnet, which is at present a 
single-file file that
starts with `#!/usr/bin/env python3`, meant to reside as 
`/usr/bin/naxalnet`.

How do I make iwd.py importable? I don't want to include iwd.py as a 
file
when I package naxalnet for distribution.
So it probably needs to be installed by pip as a library, or by the OS 
package
manager. Can you or any other developers make iwd.py available as a 
python
package installable by pip?

I'm not an experienced dev and I'm not used to python packaging, so 
correct me
if I'm wrong anywhere.

[1]: https://git.disroot.org/pranav/naxalnet
[2]: 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60358001/accessing-iwd-dbus-interface-from-python