fetch jenkins username/password from .netrc

[Domen Kožar]

It would be really useful if python-jenkins would fetch http authentication details from .netrc

[lonetwin (lonetwin)]

The python standard library comes with a netrc module ( https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/netrc.html ) for a long while now . Using that to extract the credentials is as simple as:

import netrc
...
...
netrc_cfg = netrc.netrc() # defaults to using ~/.netrc
username, _, password = netrc_cfg.authenticators('server.name')

...which can then be use to construct the Jenkins instance from python-jenkins.

If however, the maintainer feels like this would be good to build into python-jenkins itself, I'm happy to submit a patch.

[Sorin Sbarnea (ssbarnea)]

I am the current maintainer, feel free to implement it. My impression is that this may be already working since we switched to request library.

[Tobias Gruetzmacher (tobix)]

I can confirm this is working with python-jenkins 1.4.0 - it has probably worked since 1.0.0