My two LiveLessons are currently on sale at Pearson sites. Use the code RW60 to receive the discount. The sale price, $79 for each one, is available until the 15th of March.
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Netscout joins OPNFV; Cato launches a cloud-based SD-WAN service.
Hey, it's HighScalability time:
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Imagine how little fun online retailer Amazon would be having on its quarterly calls if it had not launched its Amazon Web Services cloud almost eleven years ago. The very premise of Amazon was to eliminate brick and mortar retailing, cutting out capital expenses as much as possible, to deliver books and then myriad other things to our doorsteps.
How ironic is it that Amazon pivoted to one of the most capital intensive businesses on earth – running datacenters – and has been able to extract predictable and sizable profits from it to prop up its other businesses and strengthen …
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In my previous post on Argparse I had some issues with validating values and printing help output for values that are out of range. I got some great suggestions from my smart colleagues Mikkel Troest and Patrick Ogenstad who are far more advanced in their Python knowledge.
We started out with the following code in the last post:
#!/usr/bin/env python
# import Argparse
import argparse
# import sys
import sys
# create main function
def main():
# create ArgumentParser object
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Daniel's ping script v0.1")
# add arguments
parser.add_argument("-version", "--version", action="version", version="%(prog)s 0.1")
parser.add_argument("-c", "--c" , help="Number of packets", action="store", type=int, choices=xrange(1, 1000), metavar=("(1-1000)"))
parser.add_argument("-s", "--s" , help="packetsize in bytes", action="store", type=int, choices=xrange(56, 1500), metavar=("(56-1500)"))
parser.add_argument("-t", "--t" , help="ttl for icmp packets", action="store", type=int, choices=xrange(1, 255), metavar=("(1-255)"))
parser.add_argument("-w", "--w" , help="timeout in seconds", action="store", type=int, choices=xrange(1, 10), metavar=("(1-10)"))
parser.add_argument("-ip", "--ip", help="ip address", action="store", required=True)
# parse command-line arguments
parser.parse_args()
if __name__ == "__main__" and len(sys.argv) < 2:
print "use the -h flag for help on this script"
else:
main()
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