How suitable is Python to write system utilities?

[David Boddie]

On Thursday 06 January 2011 12:08, Alice Bevan?McGregor wrote:

> Python does include libraries (and has available third-party libraries)
> to interface with external low-level libraries of every kind, has
> Python-native third-party libraries to do things like examine ELF
> object files / executables, manipulate raw IP datagrams, etc, and it is
> possible to access glib (and other C libraries or even Windows DLLs)
> directly from within Python without creating wrapper interfaces.

Just out of interest, which module/package are you using to examine ELF
files?

David