But you gotta learn about processes, signals, job control, traps, exit statuses, pipelines, file descriptors and all those things though. Shell is still a great

But you gotta learn about processes, signals, job control, traps, exit statuses, pipelines, file descriptors and all those things though. Shell is still a great glue language that helps with that. Learning Python does not really replace knowing how the shell and Unix process model work. It could, but try translating some very short shell commands into Python and see how much more machinery you need! My 2 cents. :)