Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 14th Sep 2007 23:08 UTC
As a system administrator, you run across numerous challenges and problems. Managing users, disk space, processes, devices, and backups can cause many system administrators to lose their hair, good humor, or sanity. Shell scripts can help, but they often have frustrating limitations. This is where a full-featured scripting language, such as Python, can turn a tedious task into an easy one. Python is a scripting language that looks like it was made for system administrators.
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gentoo is probably the worst advertisement for python. On anything but a very modern fast machine the portage operations are painfully, painfully slow and IMHO show exactly why scripting languages shouldn't be used too ambitiously for things. They just don't scale well.
I don't think python is the real issue. Portage used to be very fast. Over the years though it has gotten bloated and inefficient. Extending it has been difficult and not without loss of efficiency. It really is time for a rewrite. People seem to be leaning towards a C++ solution but I would rather have Python so we can easily extend it and add new modules.