I have the feeling you misunderstood the problem with magic. In fact, having a function calling shell command is ok. The problem is to know, from reading the co

I have the feeling you misunderstood the problem with magic. In fact, having a function calling shell command is ok. The problem is to know, from reading the code, where it comes from. In python there is this idea of transparency, the determinism, which is with it feels enlightening, like in the docs cartoon. Anything obscuring that is said to be unpythonic.