I have a hunch that I may later need IPC between Python and PowerShell applications on Windows, so I did some research, and managed to make a small example of IPC using named pipes. Here the PowerShell app is the server, waiting for connections, and Python app is the client. simplepipeserver.ps1: simplepipeclient.py: The Python app […]
Comparing Version Numbers in Python
The distutils module is going to be deprecated in Python 3.10, and to be removed in Python 3.12. Hence, my current standard way of comparing version number strings is using pkg_resources module (part of setuptools): >>> from pkg_resources import parse_version as version >>> version(“1.0”) <Version(‘1.0’)> >>> version(“1.8.9”) < version(“2.0”) True >>> version(“2.0.9”) < version(“2.1”) True […]
Customizing Wireshark Settings
I’ve done countless troubleshooting sessions so that I’m having Wireshark open with a relevant capture file and either I’m showing my findings to the other participants or doing straight up live packet analysis. Sometimes the sessions are followed up with questions about how did I actually have Wireshark configured because it looked different on their […]
Git Configurations
I use Git almost daily but I need my memos for the uncommon operations. Therefore the posts: Part 1: Git Configurations (this post) Part 2: Using Forks in GitHub When I’m using Git I need to first configure it. Well, strictly speaking, if I’m only going to clone some repository I don’t need to especially […]
Creating an API with Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda
This is all about creating your first API in the Amazon cloud, serverless (= using someone else’s servers). In this example I’ll create: An AWS Lambda function (in Python) that is the code that does the things I want to do when someone calls my API An Amazon API Gateway that is the frontend for […]
Templating Your Python Output with Chameleon
Especially in the web app world it is important to use a templating engine to handle the output finalization. It makes it possible to manage consistent headers, footers and styling details across all the pages in the app. You know, all those <div>, <span>, <h1> and other tags that are used to format the output […]
Cisco Nexus 9000 Routing Limitations
This is a memo and reminder about the routing limitations that I stumbled into when working with Nexus 9000 series switches running NX-OS. Feature Limitation Link to documentation PBR You cannot configure PBR on port-channel subinterfaces Interfaces configuration guide for 9.3(x) QoS You cannot configure QoS on port-channel subinterfaces QoS configuration guide for 9.3(x) QoS […]
Using Tags with Pynetbox in NetBox 2.9+
I wrote earlier about using tags with pynetbox in NetBox 2.8. After that in NetBox 2.9 tag handling was significantly changed: tags must now be separately created before they can be assigned to objects. Previously tags were automatically created if you assigned a nonexisting tag to an object. Another change is that when returning objects […]
Revisited: Version Numbering in Python Package
In Version Numbering in Python Package I showed a way to store the package version number in the code. The method is in hindsight not exactly the best one (who knew!), so here is another try for simple projects. Here I have mypackage/ (the package directory) mypackage/__init__.py mypackage/version.py setup.py with contents: mypackage/version.py: mypackage/__init__.py: setup.py: What […]
Creating Excel Sheets in Python
I cannot believe I’m posting this, but anyway, this is about creating Excel files (.xlsx) in Python 😂 (see also my earlier post about avoiding using Excel 👍) This is what it outputs as Excel sheet: Let’s see what we have here in the code. First, this is using xlsxwriter package. It includes everything I […]