Python advocacy for device testing?

[Peter Hansen]

redhouse was asking about using Python to test physical devices, not source
code...

Eric Cox wrote:

> redhouse at my-deja.com wrote:
> >
> > So I am a python newbie. I have done a week or two of working through
> > exercises and read most of "Learning Python." I am trying to sell it as
> > a testing infrastructure language in my test automation group. Does
>
> One things that springs to mind is Python's ability to easily load source
> code from a stream and compile/run it at runtime.  That would be very good
> for doing regression tests.
>
> Eric