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Practical Network Automation

You're reading from   Practical Network Automation Leverage the power of Python and Ansible to optimize your network

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788299466
Length 266 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Abhishek Ratan Abhishek Ratan
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Preface 1. Fundamental Concepts FREE CHAPTER 2. Python for Network Engineers 3. Accessing and Mining Data from Network 4. Web Framework for Automation Triggers 5. Ansible for Network Automation 6. Continuous Integration for Network Engineers 7. SDN Concepts in Network Automation

Writing Python scripts


We are now familiar with the basic concepts of Python. Now we will write an actual program or script in Python.

Ask for the input of a country name, and check whether the last character of the country is a vowel:

countryname=input("Enter country name:")
countryname=countryname.lower()
lastcharacter=countryname.strip()[-1]
if 'a' in lastcharacter:
    print ("Vowel found")
elif 'e' in lastcharacter:
    print ("Vowel found")
elif 'i' in lastcharacter:
    print ("Vowel found")
elif 'o' in lastcharacter:
    print ("Vowel found")
elif 'u' in lastcharacter:
    print ("Vowel found")
else:
    print ("No vowel found")

Output of the preceding code is as follows:

  1. We ask for the input of a country name. The input() method is used to get an input from the user. The value entered is in the string format, and in our case the countryname variable has been assigned the input value.
  2. In the next line, countryname.lower() specifies that the input that we receive needs to converted into...
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