Cobbler kickstart templates support Cheetah (http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/) code. Essentially it allows for execution of python syntax within a kickstart script, providing powerful and flexible capabilities in the code. This is equivalent to ERB (embedded ruby) syntax in Puppet templates. Syntax key features Any line which starts with a…
An interactive debugger which allows you to interact via the python shell at specific places within your code. The two important parts are import pdb --> Use the pdb library pdb.set_trace() --> Use this in each part of the code where you want to invoke the…
Create a new Virtualenv virtualenv {name_of_virtualenv} Interactively load the virtualenv source ./{name_of_virtualenv}/bin/activate Work in the virtualenv cd ~/{name_of_virtualenv} git clone {repo} pip install -r ./{repo}/requirements.txt ./{repo}/{some_thing}.py Or, to run a python script within a virtualenv once (e.…
I'd been looking for an equivalent to the UNIX nsupdate facility ( https://linux.die.net/man/8/nsupdate) for RFC2136 compliant updates (to a standard Windows or UNIX DNS server), but in python. I found https://github.com/rthalley/dnspython Although the examples were extremely limited (there was…
I've been dabbling in a bit of python. A good friend of mine, Michael, has given me a head start on this (http://benz.io/posts/Python-Regex/) - the re module is very nifty. re.match can return a "None" or matched result using Michael'…