python IRC & Command line

[Jay O'Connor]

On Mon, 26 May 2003 10:07:24 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com>
wrote:

>"Michael P. Soulier" wrote:
>> 
>> On Sat, 24 May 2003 22:44:06 -0400, Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Well that may be true but some people argue the fact that perl is better
>> >> for unix/linux users if you are a person that will be getting into system
>> >> administration.
>> >>
>> >>   How true is this? Or can python be used for the same tasks that perl is
>> >> used for System admin.
>> >
>> > Yes, it can, and is.
>> 
>> Just to add to that statement, I direct you to RedHat Linux. The
>> installer, and the majority of the sysadmin code, is all Python.
>
>RPM uses Python, but I'm uncertain the rest of that statement is correct.
>Could you provide a link to a reference for this info?


I know that when I upgraded from Python 1.5.2 to 2.2.1 I somehow
misplaced some extra python libs provided by RedHat that their own
scripts use and now every time my computer boots I get a Python import
error on my screen when it tries to start lpd :) (something related to
xml utilities)

IIRC Linuxconf is also written in Python.

Those are the only two I have direct experience with, but it's fairly
easy to go trooping through the directories and find RedHat Python
stuff


Take care,
Jay