[ale] Perl or Python for editing files...

[Richard Bronosky]

I'll give you a straight answer. Chose Python. People who learned Perl
forever ago still prefer it, of course. But since you are learning it as
something new, chose Python.

The reason is the focus on readable code. No one ever wants to maintain
someone else's Perl. Python has http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ and
pep 8 as cultural guidelines and it makes a huge difference in the help and
examples you will find online.
On Oct 18, 2011 2:09 PM, "Chuck Payne" <terrorpup at gmail.com> wrote:

> No Puppet. I wish. I have to do via script.
>
> On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:56 PM, planas <jslozier at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>> On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 11:55 -0500, Doug Hall wrote:
>>
>> For the record, I agree with Brian. There's probably already a puppet
>> recipe which does what you want to do.
>> <http://projects.puppetlabs.com/projects/puppet/wiki/Puppet_Patterns>
>> Unless this is a trivial, one-time thing that will not need to be
>> modified, I'd look at Puppet, first. Puppet can be used not only up
>> front, for setting up "standard" systems, but it can be used for
>> maintenance tasks, as well. We install Puppet clients on all our
>> equipment.
>>
>> Puppet has its own Domain Specific Language (DSL) for getting things
>> done. It executes ruby code behind the scenes, but you won't need to
>> know ruby.
>>
>> Doug
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Brian Mathis
>> <brian.mathis+ale at betteradmin.com> wrote:
>>
>> > If you are looking to do this for system deployment, you might want to
>> > look into Puppet.  It has a bigger learning curve up front, but it
>> > will pay off in the long run with better automation.
>> >
>> > In general this kind of scripting can be error prone because you need
>> > to worry about cases where you run the script and only 1/2 of it works
>> > (maybe because a package config file changed).  The parts that did
>> > work have to be smart enough not to run again (not an easy task).
>> > Once you've got the logic in the script to avoid stuff like this,
>> > you're already on your way to writing a full-blown management system,
>> > so you might want to start there from the beginning.
>> >
>>
>>  Puppet is available in the Ubuntu Natty repositories, I assume also on
>> the Onereic repositories also.
>>
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