This doesn't really answer the grandparent's question. "Try fabric" is good advice for someone that knows (a) what he wants to do and (b) how to do it using a b

This doesn't really answer the grandparent's question. "Try fabric" is good advice for someone that knows (a) what he wants to do and (b) how to do it using a bunch of shell scripts, but prefers Python instead. That's quite far from a "total noob" starting point.