pyats.connections 24.11

pyATS Connection: Device Connection Handling & Base Classes

pyATS is an end-to-end testing ecosystem, specializing in data-driven and reusable testing, and engineered to be suitable for Agile, rapid development iterations. Extensible by design, pyATS enables developers start with small, simple and linear test cases, and scale towards large, complex and asynchronous test suites.

pyATS is initially developed internally in Cisco, and is now available to the general public starting late 2017 through Cisco DevNet. Visit the pyATS home page at

https://developer.cisco.com/site/pyats/

Connections Package

This is a sub-component of pyATS that enables scripts to talk to various network devices. It provides the top level abstraction and interface to enable developers to create their own connection classes.

By default, this also installs Cisco Unicon package.

Requirements

pyATS currently supports Python 3.4+ on Linux & Mac systems. Windows platforms are not yet supported.

Quick Start

# install pyats as a whole
$ pip install pyats

# to upgrade this package manually
$ pip install --upgrade pyats.connections

# to install alpha/beta versions, add --pre
$ pip install --pre pyats.connections

For more information on setting up your Python development environment, such as creating virtual environment and installing pip on your system, please refer to Virtual Environment and Packages in Python tutorials.