Here is a quick python script which calculates average, variance and standard deviation. This is also part of codeacademy work. I must say last time I worked with variance and standard deviation it was more than 10 years ago in statistics course. Hence a bit of reminder here for me too: (Some are from wikipedia
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I have written a simple python game script to sink a battleship. It is very simple as it was almost a year ago last time when I wrote a long python script. Thanks to codeacademy that it helps to brush up my python skills. I think it is also good to put the script here
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I couldn’t really find a suitable topic for this post actually but I will try to find answers for the following questions: How can we fragment an IP packet manually in scapy How does a fragmented packet look like and how the transport layer (TCP/UDP) header is located How do we forward fragmented packets, do
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Python is a great tool to do some socket operations. I have written a piece of code by which I can scan a port range. It is very basic and missing bunch of checks as aim is the simplicity here. #!/usr/bin/python import socket,sys try: sys.argv[3] except: print "Usage: port_scanner.py [hostname|IP] [port_start] [port_end]" sys.exit() host =
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If you want to search a dictionary by value in python, here is a handy one line using also lambda: mydict = {'ver1':'2002','ver2':'2000','ver3':'2020'} dict_v_srt=sorted(mydict.items(),key=lambda sort_ver: sort_ver[1]) print dict_v_srt If you run this script output will be ; [('ver2', '2000'), ('ver1', '2002'), ('ver3', '2020')]
The following list comprehension is a life saver for me to search a dictionary by value. Searching dictionary by value may not seem to be sensible as you may get multiple values but in case needed, it is a wonderful one line of code. list_values = [ key for key,val in mydict.items() if val==value ]
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Here is a quote from python.org describing how we can use the join method. str.join(iterable) Return a string which is the concatenation of the strings in the iterable iterable. The separator between elements is the string providing this method. As it can be seen it isn’t only for strings but for something called “iterable”. Again
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I don’t know if you have used list comprehension in Python. It is a great feature. You can go through a list and do some small changes with very little effort. Here is an example; For example you have a list of user names and you would like to shorten these user names to 8
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If you want to analyse for example apache log files and split the lines by space by using the usual “split” method, you will see that split doesn’t respect quoted strings. For example if you have a line like below; 192.168.2.1 – – [06/Mar/2012:10:02:22 +0100] “GET /2011/10/19/jncip-sec-exam/ HTTP/1.1” 200 3331 “-” “mm” You can’t get
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If you want to find how many times a single word is repeated in a file, I have quoted my code below. The method that I didn’t know before was the “get” method. It allows you to get the value of the key but if it isn’t set before, set the value specified in our
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