Apache Log Parser Using Python

The aim of this tutorial is to create Apache log parser which is really helpful in determine offending IP addresses during the DDoS attack on your website.This is what we are going to do

• Read Apache log file(access.log)

Python Collections Module

This module implements specialized container datatypes providing alternatives to Python’s general purpose built-in containers, dict, list, set, and tuple.

• Counter: dict subclass for counting hashable objects

>>> from collections…

Learn Python Fundamental in 30 Days

So you want to learn the Python programming language but can’t find a concise resource. For the next 30 Days(Starting from May 1)you’re going to learn how to

OS/Subprocess Python Module

As a DevOps/System Admin everyday we encounter a task where we need to interact with OS. In this tutorial I am going to tell about some important Python module which we can use for this purpose

• os
• subprocess

Python Unit Testing(Pytest)

A good programmer always tests his code before merging moving his code to production. The way to do it is by writing automated test.

Pytest is a full-featured Python testing tool which means it does everything from test collection to run the test, to give…

Learn Python Fundamental in 30 Days — Day 3(Strings)

Strings is just a sequence of characters letters,special characters,space,digits

We can use single/double quote to represent a string

>>> x = “hello”

Learn Python Fundamental in 30 Days — Day 4(Lists)

• List is an ordered sequence that contains multiple values(mutuable sequence)
• Denoted by square brackets []
• Contain elements(homogeneous(all integers)/mixed types(not common))

Learn Python Fundamental in 30 Days — Day 2(Numbers)

Numbers: Python has various types of numbers

• Integers: are just whole numbers(positive or negative, eg: 1 or -1 )
• Floating point: Having decimal point in them(eg: 1.0 or -1.1)

Learn Python Fundamental in 30 Days — Day 1 (Introduction to Python)

• Python language created by Guido van Rossum
• It’s an interpreted,object-oriented and high level programming language.
• Python3 released in 2008 suppose to be…

Learn Python Fundamental in 30 Days — Day 6 (Tuples & Sets)

Tuples in python are immutable sequences of arbitrary objects,once created they cannot be changed(replaced/removed) and new elements cannot be added.