import os import subprocess subprocess.call("iwlist wlan0 scan > temp.txt", shell = True) output = open("temp.txt") lines = output.readlines() for index, line in enumerate(lines): if "Address" in line: address = line[29:-1] name = lines[index + 1].split("\"")[1] print "%s is %s" % (address, name) os.system("rm temp.txt")