Python Tutorial: How to install Anaconda3 (Python 3.5) for Windows
Navigate to continuum.io Click on Anaconda | Downloads Anaconda is complete development environment with over 300 Python packages. The Anaconda installer is somewhat large as it bundles a lot of...
View ArticlePython Tutorial: How to Parse and Combine RSS News headlines using feedparser
This python code will take a list of RSS newsfeed urls, fetch and combine all the news headlines into one list. The feedparser package is required, install it with the following command....
View ArticlePython Tutorial: Get Temperature and other environmental data from a Dell...
This python tutorial will teach you how to query the Dell PowerEdge temperature sensors via SNMP. Once OpenManage software is installed on a Dell server, a ton of information is made available via SNMP...
View ArticleHow to use pipenv in your python project
“goodbye requirements.txt, hello Pipfile” In this article, I will introduce you to pipenv and show you how easy it is to use. pipenv removes the awkwardness of working with virtual environments and...
View ArticleMikroTik RouterOS Automation with NAPALM
In this tutorial, we will explore using the NAPALM python module to query data from a MikroTik Router. This tutorial was developed as a Jupyter Notebook, it’s available on github if you want to...
View ArticleUse python & scapy to listen for ARP packets
This script listens for ARP request packets using scapy to learn the IP and Mac Address of LAN hosts. A little background on the ARP protocol ARP is the protocol that hosts use to discover the mac...
View ArticleUse python & scapy to listen for DHCP packets
This script listens for DHCP Request and Discover packets on the LAN using scapy. A little background on the DHCP protocol Hosts issue a DHCP Discover packet to destination 255.255.255.255 to request...
View ArticleLearn geopandas by plotting tornados on a map
In this tutorial we will take a look at the powerful geopandas library and use it to plot historical tornado data on a map of the United States. We will use two different shapefiles from NOAA, the...
View ArticleJC’s Python News & Notes – July 2020
This is a place for me to save Python related news, notes and code snippets that I find interesting. One post per month updated throughout. This is experimental, I hope I can find enough time to keep...
View ArticleGeoPandas Tutorial: How to plot US Maps in Python
In this tutorial we will take a look at the powerful geopandas library and use it to plot a map of the United States. You can run all of the python code examples in the tutorial by cloning the...
View Articlepython requests: How to ignore invalid SSL certificates
How to make an SSL web request with the python requests library and ignore invalid SSL certificates. Typically you would want the remote host to have a valid SSL certificate when making an https...
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