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All too often people I see Python code using the requests module to query an API that just bypass TLS verification (i.e it sets verify=False in the requests function calls). On RedHat Linux and derivatives, you can simply set this to verify=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt and your Python code will then automatically …
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I use python setuptools bdist_rpm to build RPMs from the code in my git repositories and today I updated my automated build script (a wrapper around python setup.py to run pre-requisite functions) to generate an RPM changelog from the git log of the repository hosting the package and then automatically include this in …
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I have recently been developing a new python web application that uses the Flask framework. Whilst running standalone, it was working fine. Then I went to setup the UAT environment which is running under Apache using mod_wsgi. I've done this many times before without any problems. However, this time I was getting a …
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I've recently been writing OpenStack Nova hooks for integration of newly deployed OpenStack nova instances with our existing infrastructure systems. Though the OpenStack Developer Documentation is very good, there is not that much documentation out there on real world end-user experiences of writing nova hooks. In this …
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If you develop python modules for distribution, you likely use python setuptools. It's very useful and takes lots of the manual operations out of distributing python code and modules. I recently started going one step further and using the bdist_rpm setup.py command option to automatically build rpms for my python code …
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I often use the python setup.py bdist_rpm command on RHEL to build RPMs of the python modules I'm developing. This makes it easy for me to distribute my module via the yum repos internally at the company I work for. At my company, most of our production servers are currently RHEL 6, but we are starting to deploy RHEL …
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To anybody working with Unix and Linux systems, regular expressions or regexes are extremely useful for fast pattern matching in scripts. First there were basic regexes now known as BREs as used by traditional Unix utilities like sed, and then came along the even more useful Perl Enhanced Regular Expressions. So useful …
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Whilst reading about BaseHTTPServer class as mentioned in the last post, I also came across the very useful SimpleHTTPserver which is most definitely worth recording as a one-liner. Everybody must have come across the situation where you're ssh'd into a headless server with no Apache installed or running on it, and you …
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These last few days I have been writing a command line reporting program at work. For Linux techs, formatted terminal output works great and is actually their preferred view. However, for managers, you simple must have the eye candy of a GUI. Normally in these situations, I would simply add CGI code and then bundle a …
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Memory not as good as it used to be. Need to stop recording things in text files in my homedir and put them here where I can find them next time. Hopefully they may help you too.
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