> Even something that should be as simple as piping output from one process to another in Python is a nightmare, and fraught with opportunities to shoot yoursel

> Even something that should be as simple as piping output from one process to another in Python is a nightmare, and fraught with opportunities to shoot yourself in the foot with buffering deadlocks and other nonsense. This hits the nail on the head for me. What I'd like is something bash-like to handle running programs, pipes, tab-complete for file names, and so on, and something like Python syntax for control flow and strings (quoting / escaping), and access to something powerful like Python's standard math libraries (and ability to import other stuff like requests). I don't know how you'd roll all that into a single shell, but as close as you can get is what I'd like to see in a new shell. (I've briefly looked at Oil before, but it has seemed a bit complicated to merit trying to switch full time at this point. I'm definitely following it for future developments though.) Edit: just found Xonsh from another user's comment, which seems almost exactly what I'm looking for, if a bit hacked together at first glance. Going to try that out.