Python in system administration?

[Dan Lund]

Well as much as I consider python to be a 5th leg on a cow, perl is
used for system administration and that's not exactly /bin/sh
guaranteed either.

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....)
>