util

Miscellaneous utilities for interacting with Azure.

Functions

lookup_service_principal(→ list)	Look up an Azure service principal from its display name.
ensure_listlike(→ collections.abc.MutableSequence)	Ensure that an object either behaves like a

Module Contents

lookup_service_principal(display_name: str) → list

Look up an Azure service principal from its display name.

Requires the Azure CLI.

Parameters

display_name

The display name of the service principal to look up.

Returns

list

The results, if any, or an empty list if no match was found.

ensure_listlike(x: any) → collections.abc.MutableSequence

Ensure that an object either behaves like a MutableSequence and if not return a one-item list containing the object.

Useful for handling list-of-strings inputs alongside single strings.

Based on this StackOverflow approach.

Parameters

x

The item to ensure is list-like.

Returns

MutableSequence

x if x is a MutableSequence otherwise [x] (i.e. a one-item list containing x).