Python in system administration?

[Ben]

Python for Unix and Linux System Administration, 1st Edition
by Noah Gift; Jeremy Jones
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Pub Date: September 2, 2008
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-596-51582-9
Pages: 656

http://safari.oreilly.com/9780596515829


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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