Stringing up a pipe with a mix of awk, tr, sed, cut, sort, uniq etc. is certainly not more readable than a Python script with comments not invoking any of these

Stringing up a pipe with a mix of awk, tr, sed, cut, sort, uniq etc. is certainly not more readable than a Python script with comments not invoking any of these but using Python's data structures, or even data frames/SQL.