[pas]

This might seem like lunacy, but I really like/recommend Ammonite instead of Python/Bash.

It's Scala, runs on the JVM, and is perfect for writing scripts. (It has a great built in dependency resolver, I mean it uses Ivy, but it downloads the dep by itself, you just import it via the "maven coordinate" - http://ammonite.io/#IvyDependencies )

It gives you a lot more safety/correctness than Python, and it's a bit simpler to install too. (No need to compile extensions, just get JDK8 and it'll run.)