Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Python For System Administration

At this month's PyGTA meeting we discussed Python for system administration tasks. The discussion centered on when it would be appropriate to abandon a shell script in favour of Python. Mostly it came down to complexity. For example, if there is much data manipulation required, it is probably time to consider Python. We agreed that shell scripts were still better suited for tasks that could be done with basic commands.

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