Welcome
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-``ncclient`` is a Python library for NETCONF clients. It aims to offer an intuitive API that
-sensibly maps the XML-encoded nature of NETCONF to Python constructs and idioms, and make writing
-network-management scripts easier. Other key features are:
+`ncclient` is a Python library for NETCONF clients. It aims to offer an intuitive API that sensibly maps the XML-encoded nature of NETCONF to Python constructs and idioms, and make writing network-management scripts easier. Other key features are:
* Supports all operations and capabilities defined in :rfc:`4741`.
* Request pipelining.
* Keeping XML out of the way unless really needed.
* Extensible. New transport mappings and capabilities/operations can be easily added.
-It is suitable for Python 2.6+ (not Python 3 yet, though), and depends on `paramiko
-<http://www.lag.net/paramiko/>`_, an SSH library.
+It is suitable for Python 2.6+ (not Python 3 yet, though), and depends on `paramiko <http://www.lag.net/paramiko/>`_, an SSH library.
-The best way to introduce is of course, through a simple code example::
+The best way to introduce is through a simple code example::
from ncclient import manager
manager
api
- extending
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