There are many benefits to using Python as a replacement for shell scripts: Python is installed by default on all the major Linux distributions. Opening a command line and typing python immediately ...

Python, of course, runs on many different platforms. So why is this part of Linux Fu? Because you can easily use it to launch any command line program. True, that also should work on other ...

On Linux, the process is far more complex and ... For instance, if you’re using a Python package that has a C extension, and you’re not installing from a precompiled binary wheel, the install ...

I’ll talk about Python, but actually, you can use many different languages with ... archive files in a previous installment of Linux Fu. If you’d rather script in C or C++, you can do that ...