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I want to standardize on a scripting language, I am using Korn and Bash on AIX and Linux and want to start using Python, I know that Python is a very friendly language with RHEL as I can download the packages from RHEL repository but on AIX I am not sure how it is handled.<br />
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We are planning to go with Puppet and also looking at the new redhat satellite server which will be based on Python completely, So does python goes in handy with AIX, I know that when ever I update RHEL, I see that python is getting updated, But I am not sure with about this on AIX, Does IBM promote python...???????<br />
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so please let me know what are the caveats of going with python on AIX...
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This is a general question:

I want to standardize on a scripting language, I am using Korn and Bash on AIX and Linux and want to start using Python, I know that Python is a very friendly language with RHEL as I can download the packages from RHEL repository but on AIX I am not sure how it is handled.

We are planning to go with Puppet and also looking at the new redhat satellite server which will be based on Python completely, So does python goes in handy with AIX, I know that when ever I update RHEL, I see that python is getting updated, But I am not sure with about this on AIX, Does IBM promote python...???????

so please let me know what are the caveats of going with python on AIX...

Scripting Languages on AIX, LINUX

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.

Unix OS

A scripting language is a programming language that supports scripts, programs written for a special run-time environment that automate the execution of tasks that could alternatively be executed one-by-one by a human operator. Scripting languages are often interpreted (rather than compiled). Primitives are usually the elementary tasks or API calls, and the language allows them to be combined into more complex programs. Environments that can be automated through scripting include software applications, web pages within a web browser, the shells of operating systems (OS), embedded systems, as well as numerous games. A scripting language can be viewed as a domain-specific language for a particular environment; in the case of scripting an application, this is also known as an extension language.

Scripting Languages

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.