Last week, we looked at the fundamentals of Python (https://www.nwfusion.com/columnists/2003/0602gearhead.html) so this week we’ll examine some of the larger ...

Introduction & Features: This project introduces the concept of network automation and highlights the features and capabilities of Netmiko, a Python library used for managing network devices. It ...

Python can present some challenges when configuring network devices. It is not a native language for most of them, so you need to use additional modules or interfaces like Netmiko, NAPALM ...

Some classes are informally tested. The only module a user should see is freight_network.py, which is the user interface and uses RoadwayNetwork and RailwayNetwork classes from modal_networks.py to ...

You can use various Python modules and libraries to monitor your system and network, such as psutil, netifaces, scapy, or socket. Updating ensures that your system and Python applications are ...

The first part of this book will walk you through Python scripts and libraries that you’ll use throughout the book. Next, you’ll dive deep into the core networking tasks where you will learn how to ...

Once you know how to add and use a Python module, you will greatly extend the capabilities of the language. A Python module is an external class or set of functions that exist outside the main ...

how its garbage collection system helps optimize memory in Python programs, and how to use the modules available in the standard library and elsewhere to control memory use and garbage collection.

For a long time, Cython, and C modules for Python generally, were a way to sidestep the GIL, the global interpreter lock. C code that doesn’t call into the CPython runtime isn’t constrained by ...