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by chriswarbo 2866 days ago
As that argument's name suggests, that's invoking a shell (or whatever the `shell` env var is set to, IIRC).

Shells are excellent at invoking commands and piping, as I said.

Doing things like piping with Python instead of a shell is indeed more complicated than it needs to be. That was my point ;)