Python for system administrators

Learn how Python can help in system administration as it dares to replace the usual shell scripting…

Resources Python-devel Python development libraries, required for compiling third-party Python module setuptools setuptools allows you to download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages with ease System administration is an important part of our computing environment. It does not matter whether you are managing systems at your work our home. Linux, being a UNIX-based operating system, already has everything a system administrator needs, such as the world-class shells (not just one but many, including Bash, csh, zsh etc), handy tools, and many other features which make the Linux system an administrator’s dream. So why do we need Python when Linux already has everything built-in? Being a dynamic scripting language, Python is very easy to read and learn. That’s just not us saying that, but many Linux distributions actually use Python…

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