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Perfectly convenient, safe and fast. Pick any two. https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html I've tol
by zippitydoodah68 8y ago
Perfectly convenient, safe and fast. Pick any two.
https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html https://docs.python.org/2/library/subprocess.html
I've told developers that if I catch them writing shell scripts in python they must commit a shell script doing
the same set of operations. 2x the work usually dissuades
from this type of nonsense.
- icedchai 8y agoAs usual, "it depends." If you have complex logic, it's generally much cleaner to implement in python. (If you told me I had to rewrite a working Python script in shell, I'd probably think you were joking. Talk about nonsense.)
- zippitydoodah68 8y ago'It depends..' is a quagmire for the unwary. My route is to make a good rule about writing python with more than 'n' os., subprocess. and *.Popen calls automatically requiring shell script counterparts in case we find your need to pythonize unsafe, unreadable and slow|broken|buggy.
- icedchai 8y agoThere are obviously programs that are better written as a shell script, no denying it! I'm just saying use the best tool for the job. If you're writing complex logic in a shell script, you're probably barking up the wrong tree. Likewise, if all you're doing is calling external programs from python, you're probably doing it wrong.