I want to perform build automation using python, and it should be cross platform. Is python a good choice? [closed]

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I would like to automate nightly builds using python. I am new to python and will need guidance from the programmers who can help me.

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Python is a nice language for build automation. There are two python based build systems, Scons and Waf, that will ease the job for you.

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If your project have already any build system (automake, cmake, msbuild, ant, maven.. you name it), you can use some ready CI solution. There is some choice here, including one written in python (buildbot: http://trac.buildbot.net/), but I'd suggest to set up Jenkins: http://jenkins-ci.org/. It's very good, easy to use, quite scalable, cross-platform, cross-language, build-system-agnostic, extensible CI system.

If not, then you should start with applying some existing build system.

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Python is much better choice,since Python is used extensively in youtube to do automation work,Python is also used in robotics,so python is right choice, it would be much easier for us to help if you can share what type of automation you are speaking about.