Practical Web Penetration Testing

Miscellaneous

• To create a function, use the def keyword, followed by the function name, some optional variables, and the : character at the end. For example:

def addition(x,y):     return x + y

• To create a for loop, do the following:

ips = ['192.1.1.1','192.1.1.254']for ip in ips:    print ip

• The following is a sample custom class object in Python:

# class nameclass Host:    #class constructor    def __init__(self,name):        self.name = name    def print_host(self):        print self.name#let's call it from somewhere elseh = Host('SRV-001')h.print_host()

• To manage errors using exceptions in Python, do the following:

try:    [put your code here]except Exception, e:    exception_message = str(e)    print("Error: " + exception_message)

• To open and read a text file, do ...