Re: [Tutor] Python for Sysadmins

2007-02-13 Thread Kent Johnson
Christopher Arndt wrote: > Steve Nelson schrieb: >> I'd like some suggestions for a course outline - bear in mind I'll >> only have a day for the course. The attendees are all sysadmins with >> a UNIX background, and are reasonably comfortable with shell, but >> nothing else. You might get some i

Re: [Tutor] Python for Sysadmins

2007-02-13 Thread Dave Kuhlman
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 03:15:54PM +, Steve Nelson wrote: > I'd like some suggestions for a course outline - bear in mind I'll > only have a day for the course. The attendees are all sysadmins with > a UNIX background, and are reasonably comfortable with shell, but > nothing else. You might

Re: [Tutor] Python for Sysadmins

2007-02-13 Thread William O'Higgins Witteman
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:38:47PM +0100, Christopher Arndt wrote: >Steve Nelson schrieb: >> I'd like some suggestions for a course outline - bear in mind I'll >> only have a day for the course. The attendees are all sysadmins with >> a UNIX background, and are reasonably comfortable with shell, b

Re: [Tutor] Python for Sysadmins

2007-02-13 Thread Christopher Arndt
Steve Nelson schrieb: > I'd like some suggestions for a course outline - bear in mind I'll > only have a day for the course. The attendees are all sysadmins with > a UNIX background, and are reasonably comfortable with shell, but > nothing else. Must topics (apart from the basic Python stuff): -

[Tutor] Python for Sysadmins

2007-02-13 Thread Steve Nelson
Hello chaps, So further to the MapReduce question, it helped greatly, and I got the job, so I'll now be programming Ruby for a living... Before I leave my present job, I've been asked to put together a day's course on Python for Sysadmins. This is mainly to enable them to maintain my code, and g

[Tutor] Python for sysadmins (Was: failing to learn python)

2006-04-10 Thread Carroll, Barry
Payal: I agree with Kent: the Python Cookbook is an excellent resource. And, it has a whole section on System Administration. try this URL: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python?kwd=System You can also try Google. I entered 'Python sysadmin'. Here are just a few potentially in