Can Python interact with OS (Win, Linux)?

Question

Python

I switched to a new course in my specialty, where they used to teach one programming language - C #, where they did not even touch on the topic of interaction with the OS. Now I really want to master Python, also to do my own projects. The question is, can Python:
a) Interact with the operating system, its policies, logs
b) Monitor incoming or outgoing traffic in any way (or library)
. I will be glad to hear your advice.
PS
I'm going to write a small script (?) that would help me to simplify the policy setting in Windows. I want to put forward this idea on the diploma. Decided to use python for this. Will it be enough?

Answer 1

Depending on what you mean by interaction... There are typical ioctls, then yes, this is implemented partially, by a third-party package, for windows https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32 and almost completely for linux - https://docs.python.org /3/library/fcntl.html
Also in the python itself there are modules for accessing the main system functions - https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.html
Well, you can do everything with third-party (and your own) libraries! For example, for Linux there is a very good API for gstreamer.