what I would like to see in python to make a better "glue" language (Newbie)

[Anthony_Barker]

I had heard python referred to as a good glue language and decided to
try it out. So far, I think it is excellent, but as a newbie there
were a couple of things I found that can be improved. Note - this is
primarily from a System Admin or company internal development
perspective.

Very Important:
1. LDAP module should be included in the base distro. Active Directory
is already available via com (nice)

Important:
2. DNS really should be included in the base library, I emailed
Anthony Baxter and he replied, saying it was almost done. It is a
hassle to parse the dig (nslookup) output as I ended up doing, as it
is not portable.

3. Telnet Library is great - including an SSH module would be a nice
addition.

Less important:
4. Include an SNMP implementation, there are several around, but a
pure python one as a library would be nice

5. RRDTOOL - a nice wrapper would be nice ( there may be one already)

Already good (as far as I can tell)
XML Support
DBI Support
Windows COM support
TCPIP Services: SMTP.. etc
Mime/zip etc

One more idea for Administrators/Glue Implementers; lots of code
examples is key. As there is no CPAN to download sample scripts, the
library should have more examples of use. Admins don't have much time
to figure libraries out. The cookbook is a nice idea (from
ActiveState) and I picked up the /efbot's book but really I think that
some of the samples should be included in the library. I came to
Python from using some IBM tools. IBM includes examples for every
module/class and every method- which is nice as you can often copy and
paste.

Thanks,

Anthony