In this tutorial, we’ll focus on how to interact with OpenStack Heat using Python. Before deep diving into Heat Python examples, I suggest being familiar with Heat itself and more specifically:
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In this post we’ll see how to work with Jinja2 in your Python projects, to easily create and modify templates.
Jinja2 is widely used and you probably already noticed it if you used projects such as Flask and Ansible or even if you simply searched for a robust templating engine.I can describe its greatness for a couple of minutes if not hours, but the
I can describe its greatness for a couple of minutes if not hours, but the official doc does it much better, so I recommend to go over them to get an idea on what you can achieve by using it. This post is mainly for those who are looking for a quickstart guide.
Another question I cover in a presentation I’m preparing for “Open University meets Open Source” meetups.
Permutation is the action of rearranging objects, characters or symbols into different, unique sequences.
Each sequence is called ‘permutation’.
It’s common to see people mix permutation with combination, but those are two different things. Remember, combination doesn’t care about the order, while permutation does.
Continue reading “Python: check if two strings are permutations of each other”
Another question I cover in a presentation I’m preparing for “Open University meets Open Source” meetups.
You have two strings, str1 and str2 and you need to return True if the first string is a rotation of the second string. Otherwise, return False.
“hello”, “llohe” -> True. If we’ll rotate the second string twice, you’ll get ‘hello’.
Continue reading “Python: check if one string is a rotation of another string”
In this post I’ll cover:
The complete code is included at the end.
In this part I’ll show you how to use the DNF module in order to search for RPMs and extract information on them such as arch, version and name.
One of the most common questions I get asked by python beginners, is “how do you compare between objects of a class?”
To answer this question, let’s have a look on the following class:
class Ball(object):
def __init__(self, color, size):
self.color = color
self.size = size
Continue reading “Python: Objects comparison” Software interrupts sent to the program to notify on significant event or request the program to run special sequence .
For example, the following command uses SIGHUP signal to request the program to reload it’s configuration
kill -HUP <pid>
Except for nature spirit, a daemon is also a process running in the background, meaning it’s a non-interactive program. It’s detached from the terminal of an interactive user.
There is no easy way to identify which processes on the system are daemons. It’s common to think that processes with ppid (parent pid) of 1 are daemons, but you can easily create in your terminal interactive process with ppid of 1, meaning not all processes with ppid 1 are daemons.
GIL (Global interpreter Lock) is a mutex. Mutex is an mutual exclusion object used to prevent from two threads or more, to access the same piece of code. This piece of code also called ‘critical section’.
So GIL is Python’s way to ensure only one thread is running the code at any given time. It serializes the access to the interpreter and ensures that each thread gets exclusive access to the interpreter internals when running.
For Python beginners, the differences between lists and tuples might not be as clear as to those who already got some experience using them.
Let’s review the key differences between the two. hopefully, it will help you choose the right type in your code and understand that although this post called ‘lists vs. tuples’ there is no real match here. each type has his own use case.
Mutability talks about the capability of an object to change or alter. This is one of the noticeable difference between the two types.
First, let’s use list:
>>> my_list = [1,2,3] >>> my_list[2] = 9 >>> print my_list [1, 2, 9]
Now let’s try the same on tuple:
