[Courses] [python] No lesson -- open discussion

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On ma, 2011-08-22 at 08:59 -0500, Kay Nettle wrote:

> Thanks so much for teaching the class!  

Likewise! I've pointed some of my teammates that are just picking up
python to these lessons and they like them. I hope you don't mind some
guys over here :) 

> >Anybody do any fun or interesting Python hacking recently?
> 
> I'm (still) working on nagios plugins.  I keep discovering better 
> ways to do things and rewriting my plugins.  I also found a vim 
> configuration file for python which keeps me from mixing tabs and 
> spaces.  
> 
> I want to do some snmp programming if I can stop changing the nagios 
> scripts.  I'm thinking of using pysnmp 4.x.  If you have a library 
> you prefer, let me know.

pysnmp 4.x is nice for doing SNMP things and I use it a lot for
maintaining a database of info about my servers. It is a bit cumbersome
to use though. Converting MIB's to its format is often tricky. It's also
not easy to combine several tables into usable information, so I wrote
https://github.com/seveas/python-snmpclient as a small wrapper.

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