#175: Teaching Python to network engineers

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

Technology

4.8 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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The discipline of network engineering is quickly moving towards a world where it's as much programming and automation as it is packets and ports. Join me and Hank Preston to discuss what parts of Python are important for network engineers to learn.

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0:00.0	Network engineering is quickly moving towards world where it's as much programming and automation as it is packets and ports.
0:06.7	Join Hank Preston and me to discuss what parts of Python are important for network engineers to learn.
0:12.1	This is Talk Python to Me, episode weekly podcast on Python, the language, the libraries,
0:35.0	the ecosystem, and the personalities. This is your host, Michael Kennedy.
0:39.0	Follow me on Twitter where I'm at M. Kennedy.
0:41.1	Keep up with the show and listen to past episodes at talk python.fm.
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0:53.7	It really helps support the show. Hank, welcome to Talk Python.org. Check out what they're offering during their segments. It really helps support
0:54.6	the show. Hank, welcome to Talk Python. Thanks, Michael. Thanks for having me. Yeah, it's great
1:00.0	to have you here. We're going to delve into a topic that I think is really interesting.
1:04.7	And I think it highlights one of the reasons of this explosive growth in Python. We've had people writing web apps in Python for a long time,
1:13.5	but now Python is starting to appear in these other domains where programming wasn't necessarily
1:19.1	the first thing that people did. And we're going to talk about programming for network engineers.
1:23.8	Excellent. It's a topic close to my heart because that's what I talk about most days
1:27.6	these days. Yeah, that's awesome. So before we get to that, let's focus on your story and just
1:33.5	talk about how you got into programming in Python. Where did it all start? Yeah, so it's good. So my
1:38.4	story and my rapid love affair with Python started, I would say, I think it was about five years ago. And I was
1:44.9	working at Cisco, which is where I currently am now, as a systems engineer and solutions architect
1:49.9	focusing on data center topics. And around that same time, the cloud kind of tidal wave was hitting
1:56.9	everybody. And so part of our role... What year was that? Yeah, I'd have to go back and look.
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