Python

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.

Today I want to talk about something that I have been enjoying and adopting more and more over the last 6 months, which is using the code as a form of documentation/source of truth for open-source projects/code. What do I mean by this? By this, I simply mean,

Today I want to share with you a small tip that I regularly use to prevent having to write multiple else-if statements within my code. You may now be asking, what's wrong with writing multiple else-if statements? Well, to be fair, nothing. However, I will show you an

After presenting the latest Packet Coders tech session in our membership last night, around Python OOP (recording here) there was one feature that I wanted to share with you, that is super useful for preventing code duplication when working with Python classes. This feature (technically a Python method) is called

If you are new to Python, you may have heard of type checking and type hinting, and wondered what they are all about. Within this post we will provide a 101 to explain what type checking and type hinting are and the problem they look to solve. Let's

Scrapli vs Netmiko. Whats the difference?

Improve Your Code Quality with AutoFlake

Today I`m going to quickly show you how you can save a bunch of time and code when writing classes. Typically when writing a class we do something like this. class Interface: def __init__(self, name: str, speed: int, mtu: int) -> None: self.name = name self.speed

The other day I was made aware (thanks to Dinesh Dutt) of a small tip when working with and iterating over Pandas DataFrames. If you`ve used Python and tools like Batfish (course here) or Suzieq (course here) to automate your network, then you may be familiar with DataFrames. However,