Python in system administration?

[Dan Lund]

Oh I just wanted to throw out there that the reason why Gentoo uses
python as the language for it's package management system is that the
creator only knew python at the time :-)
Alot of controversy but in the end it works as you said.

Thanks,
Dan Lund

"There is only one good, namely knowledge, and only one evil, namely
ignorance."
--Socrates



On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net> 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....)
>
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