> Practically every Unix/Linux box in existence has at least some version of Python If we understand "box" as "environment", in general, and not literally a ph

> Practically every Unix/Linux box in existence has at least some version of Python If we understand "box" as "environment", in general, and not literally a physical or virtual machine... Not really. E.g. see: every clean Ubuntu Docker container. They don't have Python, nor should have to include it by default. And if you are going to do something like this: apt-get update && apt-get install -y stuff wget https://file.tgz tar xf file.tgz cd file make make install value="$(cat result | grep something)" mvn clean install -Dapp.value="$value" Yeah, this would need proper securing and Shellcheck, but still I'd rather have it written like this, a concise and to the point script, instead of having to install a whole secondary language interpreter and writing a script among 3 to 10 times longer for the same result. I recently did the opposite of what everybody seems to be doing: moved an 800-line Python script, which you had to read carefully to understand what it was doing, to a 150-line Bash script that you only have to look at, because the important things to know is to see what other, external programs are being called. Just the apt-get stuff in Python was a mess with the poorly documented Python API for Apt, and some 50 lines to just do the same of an apt-get install... effectively wasted mental cycles. (EDIT: formatting)