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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: "Michelle Lowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> 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....) > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
