Before diving into writing your first Python script, a few concepts should be understood. Learning these items now will help you develop code quicker in the future. This will improve your abilities as a penetration tester or in understanding what an assessor is doing when they are creating real-time custom code and what questions you should be asking. You should also understand how to create the scripts and the goal you are trying to achieve. You will often find out that your scripts will morph over time and the purpose may change. This may happen because you realize that the real need for the script may not be there or that there is an existing tool for the particular capability.

Many scripters find this discouraging, as a project that they may have been working on for a great deal of time you may find that the tool has duplicate features of more advanced tools. Instead of looking at this as a failed project, look at the activity as an experience...