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Python for Geeks

By : Muhammad Asif
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Python for Geeks

By: Muhammad Asif

Overview of this book

Python is a multipurpose language that can be used for multiple use cases. Python for Geeks will teach you how to advance in your career with the help of expert tips and tricks. You'll start by exploring the different ways of using Python optimally, both from the design and implementation point of view. Next, you'll understand the life cycle of a large-scale Python project. As you advance, you'll focus on different ways of creating an elegant design by modularizing a Python project and learn best practices and design patterns for using Python. You'll also discover how to scale out Python beyond a single thread and how to implement multiprocessing and multithreading in Python. In addition to this, you'll understand how you can not only use Python to deploy on a single machine but also use clusters in private as well as in public cloud computing environments. You'll then explore data processing techniques, focus on reusable, scalable data pipelines, and learn how to use these advanced techniques for network automation, serverless functions, and machine learning. Finally, you'll focus on strategizing web development design using the techniques and best practices covered in the book. By the end of this Python book, you'll be able to do some serious Python programming for large-scale complex projects.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: Python, beyond the Basics
5
Section 2: Advanced Programming Concepts
9
Section 3: Scaling beyond a Single Thread
13
Section 4: Using Python for Web, Cloud, and Network Use Cases

Answers

  1. The paramiko.SSHClient class.
  2. Content, Operations, Messages, and Transport.
  3. If a network device does not support a candidate database, it typically allows direct updates to be performed for the running database.
  4. gNMI is based on gRPC, which is a protocol that was introduced by Google for RPC calls between mobile clients and cloud applications. The protocol has been optimized for data transfer, which makes it more efficient in terms of collecting data from network devices compared to configuring them.
  5. RESTCONF provides most of the functionality of NETCONF through REST interfaces but it does not expose all the operations of NETCONF.
  6. The publisher is a client program that sends messages to a Kafka topic (category) as events, whereas the consumer is a client application that reads and processes the messages from a Kafka topic.