Seems every network admin knows and relies on shell and its tools.
Python has plenty of utilization as a sysadmin tool and can be used as a replacement for bash although for very simple tasks bash is still easier.
I have noticed people who work on shell scripts really never sat down and learned it – it came from already understanding another programming language.
Yes, sometimes I use a bit of bash and never sat down to learn it.
is excited at the thought of learning something that not only has some sys admin value, but also the idea of a possibility of learning through simple game programming (from my BASIC C64 days) that some “teach yourself python” books is an attention-getter for me. And of course the promise of Python being easy to learn and and understand a good place to start.
Python is said to be fun to learn and use.