Python for Unix and Linux System Administration | 
 enlarge | Authors: Noah Gift, Jeremy Jones
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
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Pages: 456
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0596515820
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780596515829
ASIN: 0596515820
Publication Date: September 2, 2008
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Product Description
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.
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 Title should be "Learning Python..." October 22, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
As a sysadmin and avid Python user I was looking forward to all the cool tricks/hacks I'd pick up from this book. Once I got it, I was a bit disappointed. The title should be "Learning Python for System Admins". It's very much an into to Python itself, and not anything close to a "cookbook" I was expecting. It covers a ton of topics, but all without much depth. It might be useful to some, but definitely not what I was looking for.
 Example code fails! October 16, 2008
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Wow. I haven't been this disappointed with an O'Reilly book in ages. The worst part is, much of the sample code simply will not run. At first I thought it was my poor typing but then on page 207 the author finally points me at a url where I can download his source, so I do. His source doesn't work either! What gives? Did they just skip having this text edited? Seems so.
Don't waste your time with this one.
 Covers right topics, writing could be better September 23, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
As a sys-admin who has used Python, I couldn't wait for this text to come out. It certainly fills a need and contains useful insights on how to get the job done faster.
The writing could be better though. The conversational writing style causes the book to take a while to say simple things. It also rambles a bit. I've noticed a couple times that it introduces a topic, goes off on one or two tangents and then gets back to the original topic. I've also noticed more than a few grammar and spelling errors.
Because of the value of the material covered, it is still well worth reading.
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