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    Thread: Preventing: IndexError: list index out of range
Post: Preventing: IndexError: list index out of range

I understand how to use a for loop with range(len(list)) to be able to cycle through and address each item in a list. However (and in my case a directory listing), I'm trying to figure out how to pr...
PappaBear General Coding Help 1 6,533 Jun-03-2019, 04:57 PM
    Thread: Iteration of an array
Post: RE: Iteration of an array

OMG!!!!! @Yoriz that's exactly what I was looking for!! So elegant! and I know as a beginner, my code is far from "elegant" but that is so much better than my for loop! -- it makes sense [array1][arr...
PappaBear General Coding Help 5 2,787 May-23-2019, 06:54 PM
    Thread: Iteration of an array
Post: RE: Iteration of an array

Sorry, here's some better formatting, and hopefully a better explanation::: import time import os import collections from collections import namedtuple grp_list=[] obj_list=[] nt_object = namedtupl...
PappaBear General Coding Help 5 2,787 May-23-2019, 05:48 PM
    Thread: Iteration of an array
Post: Iteration of an array

I have an two-dimm array, with the "internal" array as a named tuple. EG: I have obj_list= [] my_Object = namedtuple('my_Object', 'name attribute1 attribute2')then throughout my program obj_list.ap...
PappaBear General Coding Help 5 2,787 May-22-2019, 11:11 PM
    Thread: Please help me get this code working that i haven't posted yet
Post: RE: HELP FOR A NUB

Well, assuming this is for school... otherwise you'd provide code... but let's get you "thinking" :-) variable a = 12 b = 6 then we want to add them and assign them to c c = a+b then of course we...
PappaBear Homework 3 2,428 May-22-2019, 09:45 PM
    Thread: multi-dimm array -- dynamic
Post: RE: multi-dimm array -- dynamic

I figured this out... basically in the first array, you insert the additional array import time import os import collections howmany=6 rulenumber=0 my_2d_list =[] for counter1 in range(howmany): f...
PappaBear General Coding Help 3 2,566 May-03-2019, 02:07 AM
    Thread: multi-dimm array -- dynamic
Post: multi-dimm array -- dynamic

I'm trying to figure out how to declare a 2d array (rows & columns); where the rows are dynamic What I've been able to do is define number of rows, and columns are dynamic; which is the opposite...
PappaBear General Coding Help 3 2,566 May-02-2019, 11:04 PM
    Thread: Multi-Dimm Array or Class?
Post: RE: Multi-Dimm Array or Class?

ahhh, would never have known to look for that -- namedtuple is exactly what I'm looking for!! I felt like a class was "too much" and an array wasn't enough...this should do the trick! Huge thanks,...
PappaBear General Coding Help 2 2,275 May-02-2019, 07:04 PM
    Thread: Multi-Dimm Array or Class?
Post: Multi-Dimm Array or Class?

I'm working on a config converter for firewalls. (Take ASA config, make it a Palo Alto config, or a Juniper config, etc). What I'm actually trying to do is store the following type of data rul...
PappaBear General Coding Help 2 2,275 May-02-2019, 05:14 PM
    Thread: Populating Array2 from Array1
Post: RE: Populating Array2 from Array1

Persistence! elif (current_line[0] == "username"): username_list.append(current_line[1]) No need to set the list, simply append it!
PappaBear General Coding Help 1 2,065 Aug-22-2018, 04:30 AM
    Thread: Populating Array2 from Array1
Post: Populating Array2 from Array1

High level -- working on converting vendor-A network switch config to Vendor-B syntax I am reading a config file, of which I have the current line; if the current line starts with "username", then I ...
PappaBear General Coding Help 1 2,065 Aug-22-2018, 12:20 AM
    Thread: Best construct? Array, class, other?
Post: Best construct? Array, class, other?

So as I recently modified my script to now take input from Vendor-A (asa) to Vendor-C (palo alto), I'm seeing that I may be better off using a CLASS. The issue is that any _one security policy_ could...
PappaBear General Coding Help 1 2,979 May-10-2017, 06:08 AM
    Thread: Code Review?
Post: RE: Code Review?

Great feedback and mucho appreciatedo!  double quotes -- The Fortinet FW requires a double quote around (some) objects.  But I was not aware Python sees " & ' equal, so good to know. # of prints...
PappaBear General Coding Help 9 7,195 Apr-18-2017, 10:25 PM
    Thread: Code Review?
Post: RE: Looking for constructive criticism, thoughts, ...

Print one multi-line constant because it's resource intensive to call print, or simply "cleaner" or easier to update, etc? Appreciate the feedback, but not sure _why_ multiple prints are bad.  Seems l...
PappaBear General Coding Help 9 7,195 Apr-18-2017, 07:45 PM
    Thread: Code Review?
Post: Looking for constructive criticism, thoughts, and ...

I'm back.  I have my first  _working_ python script! Woot!  It takes a Cisco ASA config, and converts certain aspects (network objects, services objects, access-list)(the ones I need)  to a Fortinet s...
PappaBear General Coding Help 9 7,195 Apr-18-2017, 07:03 PM
    Thread: Code Review?
Post: RE: Code Review?

Interesting...Dictionaries... Did not know, but may be very useful as the app grows! Thanks! Wow, not sure I used GitHub correctly... another thing to learn... But I believe you can now see the ...
PappaBear General Coding Help 9 7,195 Apr-18-2017, 02:03 PM
    Thread: Code Review?
Post: Code Review?

I'm back.  I have my first  _working_ python script! Woot!  It takes a Cisco ASA config, and converts certain aspects (network objects, services objects, access-list)(the ones I need)  to a Fortinet s...
PappaBear General Coding Help 9 7,195 Apr-18-2017, 06:06 AM
    Thread: General questions
Post: RE: General questions

Many thanks everyone! I was using NotePad++ (as I use it for all my networking stuff) with the NppPython plugin... D/L Pycharm now :-)
PappaBear News and Discussions 9 5,951 Apr-11-2017, 03:22 PM
    Thread: General questions
Post: General questions

Prologue:::  Old guy here... been doing I.T. (Networking) for over 25 years now... and for the most part had a "scripter" on the team, so I never HAD to learn*. written a few Bash scripts when needed,...
PappaBear News and Discussions 9 5,951 Apr-11-2017, 05:57 AM
    Thread: Simple Function Call
Post: RE: Simple Function Call

that was it -- I was missing the () when calling the function.. Huge thanks for the quick reply. for counter in range(len(original_lines)):        if addressword in original_lines[counter]:          ...
PappaBear General Coding Help 2 3,175 Apr-04-2017, 11:12 PM

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