What scripting langugae has both ec2 library & easy to use ncurses api?

Question

Hi,

I'm looking to write a cli replacement for elasticfox. Would be nice to use python / ruby / bash or something alike.

This is a side project to make our Ubuntu environment a bit more fun, so as much abstraction as possible - I'm loving it :).

Any tips?

Thanks, Maxim.

Answer 1

If you like Python, there's:

• Several 3rd party EC2 modules: http://pypi.python.org/pypi?:action=search&term=ec2&submit=search
• A built-in ncurses library: http://docs.python.org/library/curses.html#module-curses
• A nice and powerful ncurses alternative called 'urwid': http://excess.org/urwid/

Answer 2

Or use Perl.

EC2: http://search.cpan.org/~jkim/Net-Amazon-EC2-0.14/lib/Net/Amazon/EC2.pm

Curses: http://search.cpan.org/search?query=curses&mode=module (plenty of modules with different grades of abstraction)

Answer 3

You could also use bash and a curses based dialog program like whiptail or dialog. The dialog program also has an X equivalent, Xdialog.

This can be useful for very simple, quick and dirty, or POC work.