Technical requirements
For this chapter and the remainder of this book, you'll need to install Python. Specifically, you'll need a Python interpreter that's version 3.6.1 or higher. This book makes use of the language constructs of Python 3, which means it is incompatible with Python 2.x. Additionally you'll need to install the requests
package. You can install the newest version of requests
using python3 -m pip install requests
. At the time of writing, the current version is version 2.25.1.
If you want to follow the There's more… sections, you'll also need the Meraki SDK. To install the newest version of the package, you can use python3 -m pip install meraki
. At the time of writing, the current version is version 1.7.2.
You will also need a code editor. Popular choices include Microsoft Visual Studio Code or Notepad++. Additionally, you'll need a Meraki organization that has API access enabled. You can find a guide on how to do this...