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by blabitty 1922 days ago
I know I'm in the minority but I just don't care for python for sysadmin / devops type tasks. It fails in weird ways on file and directory manipulations and I just don't find it's stack traces very informative. A lot of scripts seem to be a bunch of system () calls strung together, how is that better than well written Shell code?

What I love python for is scraping web pages and dealing with JSON or xml it rocks for that.