Network Engineer must know about Python Language is this right?

I think that it is a fundamental shift, and that programming skills will be increasingly important for network engineers.Many of us have seen the great advances that server engineers have made in automating their environments; network engineers need to keep pace. But in order to keep pace, we need better methods of pro-grammatically controlling equipment, better tools, and an increased use of network virtualization. Network engineers also need programming skills to use the new tools and the new programmatic access.