Focus on interactivity

[wrgeorge1983]

There's enough modules for specific common tasks. Most of the improvement from this point will be in enabling rapid utilization of the framework for whatever.

Focus on being able to import the modules and use python as an interactive shell for rapid collection and analysis.

• Look at using this inside IPython? bpython
• Look at pysh? or something similar
  • If I can have tab completion of class members/attributes, I will literally, figuratively, die.
• cmd (the module) doesn't really look like what I'm after
• Simply having the right functions to make the python interpreter as useful/easy as possible.
  • .python.rc? (or whatever it's called) .pythonrc.py
  • maybe just have a module called sshinteractive? bpython -i interactive.py
  • helpful functions:
  • newip() to turn 'x.x' to 'classB.prefix.x.x' (just ip() for fewer keystrokes?)
  • def ipm(site, ip): # intelligently overwrite the trailing octets of an address
  • a better dir() that excludes items with leading underscores
  • I'm tired of typing ip = 'xxx.xxx.xx.xx'; creds = sshutil.GetCredentials(); sw = sshutil.clSwitch(ip=ip, creds=creds)
  • re-order the member parameters so that IP is first, so I can just clSwitch(ip,creds)
  • is there a nice and pythonic way to only need to specify creds once? put that in the .rc or interactive module? Definitely do not made the existing code dependant on globals or whatever

[wrgeorge1983]

def methods(o): ... pprint.pprint([e for e in dir(o) if e[0] != '_'])

[wrgeorge1983]

New interactive subclass (prefer lowercase for typing, tab completion)

sw = clinteractiveSwitch(ip='10.10.10.1', creds=creds)  # first instance needs to be complete
sw2 =clinteractiveSwitch('10.10.10.2')  # infers credentials
sw3 =clinteractiveSwitch('10.3')  # infers leading octets (however many are needed to make it whole)
sw4 = clinteractiveSwitch(4) # integer assumed to be single trailing octet

sw4.pexecute('sh ip int bri')  # print output, instead of return