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Today I want to speak about – Python’s Quest for Simplicity. Specifically around Python tooling, where we will look at the past, present, and future of a typical Python project. Past First, let's step back in time (a few years) and look at a traditional Python project ... This

Introduction If you've ever had to deal with firewalls and complex ACLs, you'll know that they can be tricky beasts from time to time! Whether it's having to generate your firewall configuration for different vendors or wading through the jungle of nested object groups

In this post, I'm going to provide a TL;DR to Poetry for Python package and virtual environment management. Pip and Virtual Environments If you've worked with Python for network automation, chances are that you've used Pip and virtual environments. If not, and you

Today we are going to quickly cover the Linux return code and its use in the world of network automation. What is a Return Code? A return code (also known as an exit code) is: a numeric value that is returned by a process (to its parent process) when terminating

Thanks to everyone who attended the -- Network Testing 101 /w Cisco pyATS -- this week. For those of you who couldn't make it, you can check out the recording below. You can also find all of the code from the session within the following GitHub repo: GitHub

Nornir Inspect is a tool, developed by Packet Coders to help learn, and troubleshoot the config management framework - Nornir.

Introduction If you've automated the generation of your network configuration, chances are you've used Jinja. If not, Jinja is a templating engine used to generate text-based files from data input. Below shows a quick example: One feature that Jinja provides is filters. Filters allow you to

Today I want to share with you a small tip on how to dynamically set class attributes within Python. Before we do, I just want to point out that this is actually something I learnt a few months back after going through the Nornir code base. Therefore true kudos goes

The other day I was asked: How do I get usernames and passwords into my Python scripts? For example to use with Netmiko, Scrapli or Nornir. The simple answer to this is the library python-dotenv. Whats python-dotenv? python-dotenv is a library that loads your environment variables from a .env file.