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Have you ever found yourself patiently waiting as Pip installs the various Python packages needed for your latest project? Well, the good folks at Astral aim to solve this common frustration with their new tool: uv! What is Uv? uv is a fast (10-100 times faster) high-speed package installer and

What is Pandas? Pandas is a Python library for performing data exploration, manipulation and analysis that allows you to work with data in easy-to-use Panda data structures, namely DataFrames. Pandas' popularity can be thanked based on its ease of use, flexibility and support in helping data scientists work with

What is Difftastic? Difftasic is a CLI tool that allows you to compare files based on their syntax rather than rely on line-by-line matching. For example, this means that if you had the following files, Difftastic would not detect any differences. $ cat vlans_1.json { "vlans": [100, 200,

In this post, we will answer the question, "What is Schema Validation?". But before we do, let's set the stage by discussing a fundamental aspect of network automation: Data. And when I say data, I mean "good" data! Data Data is required for everything

For a good few years, Black has been the defacto Python formatter. With the recent release of a new tool called Ruff, which describes itself as: An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter ... This raises the question: What is the difference between Black and Ruff? First of all, for

NetBox is a hugely popular open-source IP address management (IPAM) and data centre infrastructure management (DCIM) tool. NetBox provides a range of automation features, one of which is the ability to update NetBox with Ansible using the Ansible NetBox collection. In this short post, we'll walk through the

So, here's the deal. We're not here to throw stones at either Python or Go. Both of these languages are tremendous in their own right, especially when we talk about network automation. So next the question is: Should I use Python for Network Automation? or Should

During one of our NetBox training sessions, one of our students asked: Can I restrict a user within NetBox to only see devices for a given site? The short answer is yes. However, getting there involves a good understanding of the NetBox permission feature set, so today, we will look

A question that I find is asked a lot in the community is: How do I use Scrapli with legacy devices? For example, devices (such as IOS-XE) that use the older Ciphers by default. i.e. when connecting to the device, you receive an error such as: read : b'