[tedmiston]

Well enough with libraries like Fabric and Click. Though my projects still occasionally have Makefiles with bash one-liners for commands like what one would put in package.json in a Node app. It's almost all upside. The only real catch is if you're running against an unknown system Python version, but using virtual environments solves that and is the best practice anyway even if it feels a little heavy for one file < 100 lines.

I also really like the pattern Django uses for extensible custom commands. I haven't built a system that extensive for my own apps yet but have enjoyed working with it when I am doing Django apps.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/howto/custom-manageme...