A recent project made me to use the Windows scheduled task to execute periodically some python scripts. After the project, I find using Powershell to manage the Windows scheduled task is not so straightforward, that's why I opened this post to share my experience on some common usage, and hope this can save your time if you also need to use it.
A recent working experience needed me to write doc on Atlassian Confluance documentation product. I will show you how to convert your markdown doc to Confluance version.
If you want to create some tables from a python list, you can use the tabulate module, it can generate the table easily in text mode and in many formats, than you can past it into markdown, wiki files or add the print version to your python CLI in order to give a beautiful output to the CLI users.
pyVmomi eventManager's QueryEvents() method returns by default only the last 1000 events occurred on the vCenter. I will show you how to use another method CreateCollectorForEvents() to create an EventHistoryCollector object and then we use this object to collect all the events in a given time range by using its method ReadNextEvents().
As a Windows DevOps, I often use Powershell and Python, Powershell is installed by Windows out of box, but this is not for Python. And for my working environment, I don't have the administrator privileges on some servers. I will show you in this post how to rapidly deploy Python on Windows as a standard user by using Powershell with Nuget.
When we have submodules in a git repo, even if we add the submodules' folders into the .gitignore file, these submodules folders are still tracked from the git status output.
__init__ fileWe're familiar to put a python file inside a folder, and create a __init__.py file under the same folder, then we can easily import the file by import the folder, as the folder is transformed to a python module. But if we don't have the __init__.py, how can we import it?
One of the fastest way to convert Python json dict list to csv file with only 2 lines of code by pandas.
Select-String with color, make Select-String of Powershell to highlight the search pattern like grep in Unix.
As an ex-sysadmin, I'm in love with the Readline. In Powershell, we have its variation PSReadline. In Python REPL on Windows OS, I'll show you the PyReadline and the PtPython.