Python in system administration?

[Joshua Zeidner]

  there is also this project: http://pyshell.sourceforge.net/

 -jmz

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Alex Dean <alex at crackpot.org> wrote:

>
> On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
>
>  From: "Michelle Lowman" <michelle.lowman at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Is anyone here using Python in system administration? Better yet,
>>> is anyone also writing about it?
>>>
>>
>> The Gentoo folks have it so that their entire package management
>> system is built in Python.  That's fairly heavy system administration
>> , right?  The main problem with using Python for stuff like this is
>> that it's not guaranteed to be there, while /bin/sh is.  (You see a
>> lot of tired old Unix admins griping about the Linux users putting
>> bash-specific things in their scripts, for example....)
>>
>
> I think most of RedHat's rpm tools are written in Python.  yum, rpmbuild,
> etc.
>
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