te.insert

[skywood123]

Hi, I'm new to the tool. im trying to use as per the README.md I found that te.insert is not working. BMV2 table is not receiving the table entry. Whereas te.insert() is correctly calling out the function. Thank you.

[antoninbas]

If you are using the ipython-based shell, then we set the "autocall" property to ensure that functions can be called without parentheses: https://github.com/p4lang/p4runtime-shell/blob/8869f64f4e9215098919db129127791e249c4d3a/p4runtime_sh/shell.py#L3005

If you are using this project as a library in scripts (https://github.com/p4lang/p4runtime-shell?tab=readme-ov-file#using-p4runtime-shell-in-scripts), then there is no such thing as "autocall" and you need the parentheses.

Assuming you are using the ipython-based shell, then you may want to validate that autocall has been set properly:

c = get_config()
c.InteractiveShell.autocall

[jafingerhut]

If you are interested in examples of using p4runtime-shell from a Python program (not interactively), there are several examples in my p4-guide repository, including these:

• https://github.com/jafingerhut/p4-guide/blob/master/demo1/README-ptf.md
• This one uses Python interactively with p4runtime-shell, but not ipython, so the syntax is exactly the same as if you wrote a Python program, saved it, and ran it: https://github.com/jafingerhut/p4-guide/blob/master/demo1/README-p4runtime.md
• https://github.com/jafingerhut/p4-guide/tree/master/ptf-tests/registeraccess
• all of the other subdirectories of ptf-tests, too: https://github.com/jafingerhut/p4-guide/tree/master/ptf-tests