<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hmm...I don't recall the Pyexpect bit being very good. Of course, it could be operator error. Expect is usually sufficient, and TCL isn't that difficult. <br><br></div>You might want to look at Ansible, CFEngine, Puppet, or Chef at some point in time. <br><br></div>Leam<br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 2:47 PM, Raj Wurttemberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rajaw@c64.us" target="_blank">rajaw@c64.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="white" link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Excellent! Thank you everyone. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">I’m mostly looking to do remote tasks across hundreds of RHEL servers. I’ve been using Expect and bash scripts stored on a common NFS share to get by so far. Bash has been good to me, but I’m wanting to take things to the next level.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">/Raj<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div style="border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt"><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> <a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ale-bounces@ale.org" target="_blank">ale-bounces@ale.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jeff Hubbs<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, August 10, 2015 1:04 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ale] Beginning Python...<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal">The 2nd edition of this is what got me going: <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Python-Visual-QuickStart-Guide-Edition/dp/0321929551" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Python-Visual-QuickStart-Guide-Edition/dp/0321929551</a><br><br>On 8/9/15 9:25 PM, Raj Wurttemberg wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I want to start writing code in Python. Any good “learning” Python book suggestions? <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">/Raj <u></u><u></u></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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