On 2013-02-06, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote: >> On 2013-02-05, Neil Cerutti <ne...@norwich.edu> wrote: >>> On 2013-02-05, Walter Hurry <walterhu...@lavabit.com> wrote: >>>>> Sorry, I'm a Linux guy. I have no clue what that means. >>>> >>>> Hooray for common sense! Python is great, but it's silly to use >>>> Python (unless there is good reason) when a simple shell script >>>> will do the job. >>> >>> Python is an excellent option for writing shell scripts, >>> particularly if your shell is cmd.exe. >> >> The OP stated explicitly that the target OS was Linux: > > The impression I got was that he was looking for something that would > be cross-platform and work in both Windows and Linux. Python is a > reasonable choice for that if you're not willing to deal with Cygwin.
True, the _language_ of Python is cross-platform, but doing much of anything filesystem/administration related in a cross-platform manner can be painful. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I feel like I'm at in a Toilet Bowl with a gmail.com thumbtack in my forehead!! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list