In this chapter, we learned about how we can automate regular administration tasks. We learned about accepting input by various techniques, prompting for passwords at runtime, executing external commands, reading configuration files, adding warnings in your script, launching webbrowser through the script as well as the command line, using the os module to handle files and directories, and making backups.

In the next chapter, you will learn more about the os module and handling data. Also, you will learn about the tarfile module and how you can use it.