Calling All Members! Help me help you use Python.

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Hello all,
I am turning some ideas for a course over in my head. I think that creating a very purposeful and pointed Python course with the main focus of administration of systems. As a result, what are some tasks that you find yourself doing over and over again that you wish you could automate. I hope that way I can find some ideas for creating one of the next courses.

Thanks!

P.S. Your tasks may not get used exactly, but generating ideas can never have too many inspirations.

Hi, Justin.

When it comes to System Administration, especially in the Linux space, I'm interested in Python as it pertains to using APIs to reach out to other systems and make calls and receive data. I use a lot of BASH and it works for my everyday Linux Sysadmin work, but I find myself needing Python instead when I have to use an API for something. Perhaps some content on Python AWS (Boto3?) integration?

Anyway, you rock, Justin! Love your lectures and the way you explain things.

As far as automating things go, I'd much rather go with the flow and use ansible... But a lesson or five about how to use python to create ansible modules would be helpful... that is, if this course-ware doesn't already exist (i didn't check).

or... Inception... a python program, that creates modules in python, for ansible... Sounds like a course project itself.

Justin,
I'd love to help you help me use Python!! I would so love to see some, more advanced courses!!!
HOWEVER
Earlier I posted a question in general discussion but I may have tagged you incorrectly that I would appreciate your input(question_answer_to):
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Hey all, but more specifically for @Justin-Dennison66 .......
As an intro to myself I've been around computers for quite some time (non specific age spoiler lol), but just as an end user and not as a programmer. In attempting to get some of my CompTIA certifications I've found that Python is kind of a language that they expect us to be familiar with so I decided that I should probably familiarize myself with it more ergo that's why I'm here lol.
So far you've done an exemplary job in explaining how certain functions work and how to apply them and why!
However, (here comes the but lol) there's a lab in the course and specifically a task in which I don't understand the why.
In the lab 'Converting types in Python' Exercise 1: Task 2: Step 13

"#Convert an integer variable to character type
o=100
print('The character type of number 100 is:', chr(o))"

Now I understand the command structure as to what Python should output but what i don't understand is the answer or result
(result) "The character type of 100 is: d" (as a note this was a command also given in a CompTIA Fundamentals lab)

My question here is, (as was in the other lab) why does python assign the letter 'd'? Why not A or X? Inquiring minds need to know lol.

Hey @James-Dunton ,

Justin has moved on to other opportunities. I'm not the Python guy that Justin is, but I think I can help with your question.

chr() is a "method that returns a character (a string) from an integer (represents unicode code point of the character)."

You said you understand the first part, but let's review for my sake.

So in your example from the lab:
o=100 is assigning the integer 100 to the variable o (Need to talk to the lab designers, who uses o as a variable?!? 🤪

print('The character type of number 100 is:', chr(o))" This is where we call the method chr(). We want it to look up the unicode value "100" and return the character that unicode decimal value represents.

Here is a snippet of a unicode table I got from Wikipedia...

From the table you can see 100 is the unicode decimal value for the Latin small letter D.

So this is why it is returning d

If you change o=100 to o=103, you should get g (check the table above)

For inquiring minds 😀, Capital A is 65, and capital X is 88.

Here is a link to the Wiki table, but there are several on the web.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters

Here is a link to the some information on chr().

https://www.programiz.com/python-programming/methods/built-in/chr

Hope this helps!

Mike, thanks so much for your help and further resources!!

@James-Dunton ,

You're welcome, Glad I could help!

I took your CLI Interactive and want to build more NIC tools. I finished finding the LO and NICS in the computer. I list hostname, IPv4 and IPv6. My next project is to find the networks and subnets and find all the devices in my house. I thought about finding the computer routing table and using that to find all the subnets. Maybe setup traceroutes and pings.