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Wireless Network List empty

There may be hundreds of reasons why your wireless network list may be empty. Another symptom is blank ipconfig command output. And here I collected all available options to try to resolve the issue. Make sure it's not the hardware problem: Try switching WiFi off and on with the slider/button on laptop casing. If you have Windows or Linux LiveCD - it is good idea to boot from it and check if WiFi is working on the guest OS. If it's working when booted from LiveCD, but not from your installed Windows then try these options: Make sure you are using most recent WiFi card drivers and not using something you don't need. For example if you de-installed McAfee antivirus, its filter driver (McAfee NDIS Intermediate Filter) may still be available in the Network Connection Properties. Just disable it and you are all set. If you have system restore available, just restore the system to a couple of days before the problem. Make sure you have necessary services started: Go to Con

Working with MS Excel files from Python

The xlwt Module ( https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xlwt ) - a Python package for generating Microsoft Excel™ spreadsheet files. I have found this module very useful for rapid development. The documentation is currently incomplete, but the package contains a comprehensive set of examples, so you'll most likely start using the module in just 5 minutes. xlwt is a library for generating spreadsheet files that are compatible with Excel 97/2000/XP/2003, OpenOffice.org Calc, and Gnumeric. xlwt has full support for Unicode. Excel spreadsheets can be generated on any platform without needing Excel or a COM server. The only requirement is Python 2.3 to 2.7. The installation is easy. Just unzip the .zip file into a suitable directory, chdir to that directory, then do "python setup.py install". Caveats : The only error I've got is UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(128) when trying to write 'str