On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 16:42:53 +0100 Edward Cree wrote:

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It would be great if python had standard module for netlink.
Then your code could just (re)use that.
Something like mnl but for python.  

There's pyroute2, that seemed alright when I used it for something
 a few years back, and I think it has the pieces you need.
https://pyroute2.org/

I saw that and assumed that its true to its name and only supports
RTNL :( I'll reach out to Peter the maintainer for his thoughts. 

This patch was meant as a sample, I kept trying to finish up the C
codegen for a week and it still didn't feel presentable enough for 
the RFC. In practice I'd rather leave writing the language specific 
libs to the experts.