On Feb 26, 3:23 pm, Krishna Kirti Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a long-time user of Perl who comes to you in peace and is > evaluating different scripting languages for use as a scripting > platform for system administrators on the Windows platform. Perl > already has many modules that allow sys admins and devolpers to do > lots of things with the Windows OS, and I'm wondering what the state > of the art is with Python and being able to control and administer a > windows environment. In this regard, how does Python stand up against > Perl?
There's the PyWin32 module if you want to do low-level stuff: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.5/pywin32/PyWin32.html http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.5/pywin32/win32_modules.html Or you can "roll-your-own" (sort of) with the ctypes module: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-ctypes.html The PyWin32 basically exposes most (if not all) of the Windows API. I think ctypes is usually used for COM black magic. There's also a slightly higher level wrapper for WMI that you can use: http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi.html http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_cookbook.html Tell us what you want to do and we'll tell you if (and maybe how) you can do it with Python. Mike -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
