Is Python a requirement? I mostly do my automation in bash. I use Python a lot for throwaway scripting for example if I want to go through a file and e.g. calcu

Is Python a requirement? I mostly do my automation in bash. I use Python a lot for throwaway scripting for example if I want to go through a file and e.g. calculate/count/remove/add various points of it. It's a shortform of automation, I guess.