After presenting the latest Packet Coders tech session in our membership last night, around Python OOP (recording here) there was one feature that I wanted to share with you, that is super useful for preventing code duplication when working with Python classes. This feature (technically a Python method) is called

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Today I wanted to quickly share something that you may find useful when working with Batfish. Which is around Batfish's behaviour around the modeling of management networks. The TL;DR here is: By default, Batfish shuts down the management interfaces of your nodes. If you have read this

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Today I`m going to quickly show you how you can save a bunch of time and code when writing classes. Typically when writing a class we do something like this. class Interface: def __init__(self, name: str, speed: int, mtu: int) -> None: self.name = name self.speed