Is Python as capable as Perl for sysadmin work?

[Nick Craig-Wood]

Jeff Epler <jepler at unpythonic.net> wrote:
>  Finally, Python just doesn't respond to threats as well as Perl does.
>  I have run into many Perl programs that just didn't quite work right
>  until I wrote '... or die "$!"' in the right places.

I find

  '... or die "You $@$!"'

works even better ;-)

Thanks for a very amusing post!
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