Python – Riaan's SysAdmin Blog

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Python Append Key Building a dict and ordering it into groups by key is sometimes very useful. Teh following code

I wanted an easier way to test and manipulate a notification using an AWS SNS subscription. Mostly I do a

Balance Decimals Noting my python code for reference. If familiar with crypto currency tokens you may find the token balance

Terraform can utilize a http backend for maintaining state. This is a test of a Terraform http backend using a

Python Flask API Using MongoDB After a recent experiment I did to capture the output of jobs with json output

example finding a block. start string and reverse search up to next string. then replacing a line inside the block

I highly recommend using restic instead of what I am talking about here. Mostly I am just documenting this for

I am converting some scripts to python3 and noticed the pip modules in use for python2 need to be added

Boto3 and AWS DynamoDB usage… http://boto3.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/services/dynamodb.html

I frequently bump into manipulating very large log files and the date input strings are formatted poorly. Couple problems for