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Windows System Administration: State of the Art on Python?

Krishna Kirti Das

2/26/2008 9:24:00 PM

I am a long-time user of Perl who comes to you in peace and is
evaluating different scripting languages for use as a scripting
platform for system administrators on the Windows platform. Perl
already has many modules that allow sys admins and devolpers to do
lots of things with the Windows OS, and I'm wondering what the state
of the art is with Python and being able to control and administer a
windows environment. In this regard, how does Python stand up against
Perl?
3 Answers

jay graves

2/26/2008 9:42:00 PM

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On Feb 26, 3:23 pm, Krishna Kirti Das <krishnaki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a long-time user of Perl who comes to you in peace and is
> evaluating different scripting languages for use as a scripting
> platform for system administrators on the Windows platform. Perl
> already has many modules that allow sys admins and devolpers to do
> lots of things with the Windows OS, and I'm wondering what the state
> of the art is with Python and being able to control and administer a
> windows environment. In this regard, how does Python stand up against
> Perl?

I can't comment on how it stacks up against Perl but I've pointed to
Tim Golden's collection several times. Lots of good stuff there.

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/...

....
Jay

Mike Driscoll

2/26/2008 9:48:00 PM

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On Feb 26, 3:23 pm, Krishna Kirti Das <krishnaki...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am a long-time user of Perl who comes to you in peace and is
> evaluating different scripting languages for use as a scripting
> platform for system administrators on the Windows platform. Perl
> already has many modules that allow sys admins and devolpers to do
> lots of things with the Windows OS, and I'm wondering what the state
> of the art is with Python and being able to control and administer a
> windows environment. In this regard, how does Python stand up against
> Perl?

There's the PyWin32 module if you want to do low-level stuff:

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.5/pywin32/Py...
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.5/pywin32/win32_mo...

Or you can "roll-your-own" (sort of) with the ctypes module:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-c...

The PyWin32 basically exposes most (if not all) of the Windows API. I
think ctypes is usually used for COM black magic. There's also a
slightly higher level wrapper for WMI that you can use:

http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/pytho...
http://tgolden.sc.sabren.com/python/wmi_coo...

Tell us what you want to do and we'll tell you if (and maybe how) you
can do it with Python.

Mike

Martin v. Loewis

2/26/2008 10:47:00 PM

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> I am a long-time user of Perl who comes to you in peace and is
> evaluating different scripting languages for use as a scripting
> platform for system administrators on the Windows platform. Perl
> already has many modules that allow sys admins and devolpers to do
> lots of things with the Windows OS, and I'm wondering what the state
> of the art is with Python and being able to control and administer a
> windows environment. In this regard, how does Python stand up against
> Perl?

As everybody else, I cannot compare it to Perl, because I don't know
Perl good enough (or at all, for that matter). I found Python does
*very* well in Windows system administration, in many cases, better
than Visual Basic (IMO, and for the things I wanted to do). I've
mostly used the COM integration, as the things I wanted to manage
had COM (automation) interfaces.

Regards,
Martin