From the post: > I encountered a nice blog post, Replacing Shell Scripts with Python, which, in my opinion, inadvertently proves the opposite point. The Python

From the post: > I encountered a nice blog post, Replacing Shell Scripts with Python, which, in my opinion, inadvertently proves the opposite point. The Python version is more difficult to write and maintain. Here's the link: https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/bashing-the-bash-replacing-shell-scripts-with-python-d8d201bc0989 https://medium.com/capital-one-developers/bashing-the-bash-r... I think, roughly speaking, the fact that Python 3 is much closer to a sane language for engineering means that it's less suited for scripting.