If you're using UNIX tools to parse it, it sucks, but generally if I'm reading the output of a command, and the command is more than one word, I'm doing the who

If you're using UNIX tools to parse it, it sucks, but generally if I'm reading the output of a command, and the command is more than one word, I'm doing the whole thing in Python. That's real programming, and for that I want type checkers and debuggers and modern syntax and all that. And the performance is often faster because you're not spinning up subprocesses for each command.