Sat, 04 Jul 2009
Baby Steps with Python
Thanks to the enthusiasm I've returned from EuroPython with (and the fact
I couldn't make it to OpenTech because of washing machine issues) I decided
to spend a little bit of time porting Nagios Webchecks to
python. As a use case it covers a lot of the functionality I need in my day
to day system scripts. The ability to specify command line arguments, read
a config file and interpolate a template file for output.
I'm no where near finished (and I need to spend a lot more time with Python
in a Nutshell before I'm going to feel comfortable) but there's been nothing
too horrible so far. Libraries returning tuples rather than lists still feels a
little awkward but I suspect that's just me being new to this. ConfigParser
seems to meet my current ini file reading needs (which are pretty simple) and Jinja2
looks like a decent template engine. Biggest personal bugbear so far is
that using % when printing a variable feels wrong ( print "Hello %s",
name feels a lot more comfortable than print "Hello %s" %
name and is a more common format across languages.)
I'll show the code to a co-worker or two on Monday and hopefully pickup some constructive criticism as they destroy my slightly too perlish attempt at python code.
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