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Learning
Julian
Admittedly, when Bob and I discussed this challenge, I was a little intimidated. I’d never actually dealt with any of these concepts before! That said, I’m so glad we put this one out there!
If it wasn’t for the challenge, I wouldn’t have learned nearly as much as I did.
Given my current job role, I decided that it’d be fun to try and wrap a context manager around SSH functionality. This was a perfect choice given you need to specifically call .close() to close off the SSH session. If not, it just stays open indefinitely (or until timeout).
All up, I had to solidify my understanding of generators, context managers and ssh within Python.
In a venv, I installed the paramiko SSH package and went from there.
After figuring out how to get the SSH connection going, I then spent the time bundling it all up within the context manager. Dan Bader’s post; the pep-0343 doc and a few Googled questions on Stack Overflow helped sort me out.
See the full code here. Not only does it work, but I’m also now using at home with my NAS!
Bob
This was a nice challenge. I got inspired by the DB rollback example of PEP 343.
I wanted to see if I could use some existing code so I re-used the test code of my Simple Flask API article. Just as an exercise, in real life I actually like the setUp/tearDown sandwich unittest already provides.
What I really liked was that I got to think about different ways to implement this: class vs contextmanager. All this experimentation led to some good learning.
And I got to use pytest which I really want to explore further 🙂
(venv) [bbelderb@macbook 09 (solutions)]$ pytest with_tes*
=== test session starts ===
...
with_testdb.py ..
with_testdb_class.py ..
=== 4 passed in 0.01 seconds ===
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