This looks cool, especially if one needed to do a number of pipe operations from python, I'm not sure of an elegant way to do that already. Honestly I might be

This looks cool, especially if one needed to do a number of pipe operations from python, I'm not sure of an elegant way to do that already. Honestly I might be the wrong audience though, I've spent many years shell scripting and I find the flexibility of using the command line tools so great I choose to use it first despite the inadequacies of bash. I wonder if users with my point of view would ever be tempted away. Also the shell is an interactive repl, which to me is where a lot of the power lies. The number of times I've asked a junior things like what the total duration of a set of audio files is, or the average length or something. They often come back with a python script or worse a jupyter notebook and pandas. The answer can also often be found by combining things like grep and awk in a few seconds once you've become acquainted with the tools, I guess I do try and demonstrate / preach this where I can.