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Mastering Python Networking

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Mastering Python Networking

Overview of this book

This book begins with a review of the TCP/ IP protocol suite and a refresher of the core elements of the Python language. Next, you will start using Python and supported libraries to automate network tasks from the current major network vendors. We will look at automating traditional network devices based on the command-line interface, as well as newer devices with API support, with hands-on labs. We will then learn the concepts and practical use cases of the Ansible framework in order to achieve your network goals. We will then move on to using Python for DevOps, starting with using open source tools to test, secure, and analyze your network. Then, we will focus on network monitoring and visualization. We will learn how to retrieve network information using a polling mechanism, ?ow-based monitoring, and visualizing the data programmatically. Next, we will learn how to use the Python framework to build your own customized network web services. In the last module, you will use Python for SDN, where you will use a Python-based controller with OpenFlow in a hands-on lab to learn its concepts and applications. We will compare and contrast OpenFlow, OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV. Finally, you will use everything you’ve learned in the book to construct a migration plan to go from a legacy to a scalable SDN-based network.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Title
Humble Bundle
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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OpenStack, OpenDaylight, and NFV

Python Pexpect Library


Pexpect is a pure Python module for spawning child applications, controlling them, and responding to expected patterns in their output. Pexpect works like Don Libes' Expect. Pexpct allows your script to spawn a child application and control it as if a human were typing commands. - Pexpect Read the Docs, https://pexpect.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html

Like the original Expect module by Don Libe, Pexpect launches or spawns another process and watches over it in order to control the interaction. Unlike the original Expect, it is entirely written in Python that does not quire TCL or C extensions to be compiled. This allows us to use the familiar Python syntax and its rich standard library in our code.

Installation

The installation of the pip and pexpect packages is straightforward:

sudo apt-get install python-pip
sudo apt-get install python3-pip
sudo pip3 install pexpect
sudo pip install pexpect

Note

I am using pip3 for installing Python 3 packages while using PIP for installing...