Python-for-Linux-Sysadmin

• Aimed at Linux sysadmins with knowledge of Bash or Perl that are learning Python or developers wanting to perform system administration or automate Linux stuff with Python
• Based on Python 2.7
• Examples based on usage of the Python modules that are most useful for sysadmin work

Basic Modules

• Interacting with the Operating System: os
• Interactign with the Interpreter (gettign args for ex) sys
• Executing Linux commands: subprocess
• High Level File Operations shutil
• Command line options argparse
• Config file parser ConfigParser
• Logging logging
• Network connections socket

Other Modules

• Send mail with smtplib
• Filename pattern matching with [fnmatch] (https://docs.python.org/2/library/fnmatch.html)
• datetime
• itertools
• paramiko
• daemon
• filecmp
• glob
• csv
• requests