The downside to Python is people start screeching if you use subprocess to call executables, and dammit, sometimes I don't want to find and implement the API in

The downside to Python is people start screeching if you use subprocess to call executables, and dammit, sometimes I don't want to find and implement the API in Python - I just want to run the program that already does that for me. My personal flip point is error handling. If errors aren't important, shell. If they are, shell with `set -e`. If errors are important but also shouldn't immediately kill the script from one failure, Python.