On Nov 5, 2008, at 10:31 AM, Matt Graham wrote:

> From: "Michelle Lowman" <michelle.lowman@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.