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JSON is usually use when doing computer to computer communication and network devices API’s. YAML is usually most easier to read for humans , common use in Ansible.  

This is going to be a example how to create a new dictionary out of an output : 1st the dictionary that we are going to change with only specific items with different key names : from pprint import pprint…
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To work with data structure you can drill down to which information you need using these commands to peel it layer by layer  : 1st determine what kind of data : List : output.keys() type(output) len(output) Then to see the…
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To import a library in python you need to specify it in the beginning of the script file : import “library” example pprint is a library for an easy reading output. to see where that library is install : “library”.__file__…
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import sys sys.path Every time you are importing a package “netmiko” this is where it is going to look for it. to remove the default path for python : env | grep PYTH unset PYTHONPATH env | grep PYTH cat…
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When dealing with very large output data structure , and need to extract data from it : Example : Devices = { ‘sw1’: { ‘ip_addr’: ‘10.10.10.1’, ‘username’: ‘admin’, ‘password’: ‘cisco’, ‘bgp_peer’: ‘10.10.20.1’, ‘10.10.30.1’, ‘10.10.40.1’}, ‘sw2’: { ‘ip_addr’: ‘10.10.10.2’, ‘username’: ‘admin’,…
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You can use JSON to output a dictionary so it is easier to read, personally i prefer the pprint output but as today i didn’t got a chance to see why i would use that. so to be updated soon…
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Example of a YAML file : List : — – 10.10.10.1 – 10.10.10.2 – 10.10.10.3 Dictionary : — Key:value device1: 10.10.10.1 device2: this is a string device3: “this can nclude special characters” device4: True or true or yes or no…
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