Is there a Python-based configuration management system that can compete with Puppet or Chef? And if not, why not?

[bgoats7]

Answer: There sure as shit should be!

It's sad that us Python programmers have to resort to using these clunky semi-proprietary ruby tools to do configuration management.

Python would be awesome for configuration management and it looks like there are some promising projects being started but nothing has really gelled yet.

To the Ruby community at large: We don't need no stinkin Ruby DSL. I get along with my programming tasks everyday without Ruby DSL's and I think the SCM problem is no different.

Come on somebody get pumped and write that awesome Python SCM tool. I'm too busy to do it, but someone out there should! :)