Python Network Programming

Language choices (Python/PowerShell)

Moving ahead, armed with the knowledge of how to write a program and an understanding best practices, we will now look at some scripting languages that suffice for our automation scripts. A basic difference between a scripting language and a programming language (such as C and C++) is that a scripting language is not compiled but interpreted through the underlying environment in which it is executed (in other words, a converter is required to convert the commands written in human-readable format to machine format by parsing one line at a time), whereas the programming language is primarily compiled and hence can be executed in multiple environments without the use of any specific underlying environment ...