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Mastering Python Networking

You're reading from   Mastering Python Networking Your one-stop solution to using Python for network automation, DevOps, and Test-Driven Development

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789135992
Length 466 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Review of TCP/IP Protocol Suite and Python FREE CHAPTER 2. Low-Level Network Device Interactions 3. APIs and Intent-Driven Networking 4. The Python Automation Framework – Ansible Basics 5. The Python Automation Framework – Beyond Basics 6. Network Security with Python 7. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 1 8. Network Monitoring with Python – Part 2 9. Building Network Web Services with Python 10. AWS Cloud Networking 11. Working with Git 12. Continuous Integration with Jenkins 13. Test-Driven Development for Networks 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Introduction to Flask

Like most popular open source projects, Flask has very good documentation, which is available at http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/0.10/. If any of the examples are unclear, you can be sure to find the answer on the project documentation.

I would also highly recommend Miguel Grinberg's (https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/) work related to Flask. His blog, book, and video training have taught me a lot about Flask. In fact, Miguel's class Building Web APIs with Flask inspired me to write this chapter. You can take a look at his published code on GitHub: https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/oreilly-flask-apis-video.

Our first Flask application is contained in one single file, chapter9_1.py:

from flask import Flask
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route('/')
def hello_networkers():
return 'Hello Networkers!'

if __name__ == '__main__':
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