I found this problem as well when doing a direct port including pipes from bash to python. It was the first iteration into python and I was lacking time to do a

I found this problem as well when doing a direct port including pipes from bash to python. It was the first iteration into python and I was lacking time to do a proper port into python native. The python code to do piping ends up as longwinded and the plumbing of pipes ends up a massive headache so I wrote tidycmd to overcome that issue https://github.com/laurieodgers/tidycmd https://github.com/laurieodgers/tidycmd