Python a good thing for sysadmins ?

[William Annis]

Aurelien <aurelien at fractals.be> writes:

> In fact I already used Python but that was way back before, when I just=20=
> wanted to learn programming. In the mean time I've become a professional=20=
> java programmer, but now I might need python for sysadmin tasks.
> I'd like to know if Python could be used for system administration.

        Yep.

>                                                                      And=20=
> if there are people out there who use it for that.

        I use it all the time for all sorts of sysadmin tasks, from
the simple to the quite complex.

> Could it be used for example to launch tasks from the cron daemon ?

        Anything you could do with shell you can do with Python.  For
truly simple tasks, you should stick with shell (Bourne or Korn, or
Bash), but for everything else, by all means try Python.

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