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Mastering Python Networking
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Mastering Python Networking

by Eric Chou
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
446 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Arista Pyeapi library

The Python client for the eAPI and Pyeapi (http://pyeapi.readthedocs.io/en/master/index.html) libraries is a native Python library wrapper around eAPI. It provides a set of bindings to configure Arista EOS nodes. Why do we need pyeapi when we already have eAPI? Since we have used Python to demonstrate eAPI, keep in mind that the only requirement of eAPI is a JSON-RPC capable client. Thus, it is compatible with most programming languages. Personally, I think of eAPI as a common denominator among all different languages. When I first started out in the field, Perl was the dominant language for scripting and network automation. There are still many enterprises that rely on Perl scripts as their primary automation tool. ...

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