One project that I'm starting to use more and more is Rich. In short, Rich is a Python library for:
writing rich text (with colour and style) to the terminal and displaying advanced content such as tables, markdown, and syntax highlighted code.
... and I have to say, it does it very very well! But this is not all, Rich also includes a great feature - inspect(). Quite simply inspect generates a report on any Python object. Great for a quick form of documentation or debug aid!
Here's a quick example that allows you to see all the attributes configured for a Netmiko connectHandler.
$ pip3 install rich
>>> from rich import inspect
>>> inspect(netmiko_connection)
╭─────────────────────────────── <class 'netmiko.cisco.cisco_ios.CiscoIosSSH'> ───────────────────────────────╮
│ Cisco IOS SSH driver. │
│ │
│ ╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮ │
│ │ <netmiko.cisco.cisco_ios.CiscoIosSSH object at 0x7f4b90e43ac0> │ │
│ ╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯ │
│ │
│ allow_agent = False │
│ allow_auto_change = False │
│ alt_host_keys = False │
│ alt_key_file = '' │
│ ansi_escape_codes = False │
│ auth_timeout = None │
│ banner_timeout = 15 │
│ base_prompt = 'ios-001' │
│ blocking_timeout = 20 │
│ conn_timeout = 5 │
│ device_type = 'cisco_ios' │
│ encoding = 'ascii' │
│ fast_cli = False │
│ global_cmd_verify = None │
│ global_delay_factor = 1 │
│ host = 'lab.packetflow.co.uk' │
│ keepalive = 0 │
│ key_file = None │
│ key_policy = <paramiko.client.AutoAddPolicy object at 0x7f4b80dae610> │
│ passphrase = None │
│ password = 'abc' │
│ pkey = None │
│ port = 2101 │
│ protocol = 'ssh' │
│ remote_conn = None │
│ remote_conn_pre = None │
│ RESPONSE_RETURN = '\n' │
│ RETURN = '\n' │
│ secret = '' │
│ serial_settings = {'port': 'COM1', 'baudrate': 9600, 'bytesize': 8, 'parity': 'N', 'stopbits': 1} │
│ session_log = None │
│ session_log_record_writes = False │
│ session_timeout = 60 │
│ sock = None │
│ ssh_config_file = None │
│ system_host_keys = False │
│ TELNET_RETURN = '\r\n' │
│ timeout = 100 │
│ use_keys = False │
│ username = 'lab' │
│ verbose = False │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯
