Python is an ideal language for solving problems, especially in Linux and Unix networks. With this pragmatic book, administrators can review various tasks that often occur in the management of these systems, and learn how Python can provide a more efficient and less painful way to handle them. Each chapter in Python for Unix and Linux System Administration presents a particular administrative issue, such as concurrency or data backup, and presents Python solutions through hands-on examples. Once you finish this book, you'll be able to develop your own set of command-line utilities with Python to tackle a wide range of problems. Discover how this language can help you: Read text files and extract information Run tasks concurrently using the threading and forking options Get information from one process to another using network facilities Create clickable GUIs to handle large and complex utilities Monitor large clusters of machines by interacting with SNMP programmatically Master the IPython Interactive Python shell to replace or augment Bash, Korn, or Z-Shell Integrate Cloud Computing into your infrastructure, and learn to write a Google App Engine Application Solve unique data backup challenges with customized scripts Interact with MySQL, SQLite, Oracle, Postgres, Django ORM, and SQLAlchemy

With this book, you'll learn how to package and deploy your Python applications and libraries, and write code that runs equally well on multiple Unix platforms. You'll also learn about several Python-related technologies that will make your life much easier.

Gift and Jones, both experienced software engineers and Unix/Linux users, present this guide to the Python programming language, offering IT personnel and fellow users tips on how to write code using such utilities as SNMP, IPython, SQLAlchemy and others. By including a downloadable Ubuntu virtual machine, the book supplies Python source code that can help users read text files, run tasks concurrently by using threading and forking options, create clickable GUI utilities and even use the IPython master shell to replace Bash, Korn or Z-Shell. A free online edition of this guide is available for 45 days after purchase. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This example-driven book gives Linux and Unix administrators a practical way to solve problems with Python, the popular programming language. Python is highly readable and ideal for solving problems, especially in Unix-like systems. This pragmatic book walks administrators through several example situations and demonstrates how Python can resolve them. The goal is help administrators develop the tools — and philosophy — for using Python to approach any administrative problem.