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Typically if you have bash you have a bunch of other utilities installed too.

The problem with python here is that while python-sh might be nice, you have to install any extra libraries you need with it, and that's not a trivial problem for installing scripts into prod.

Xonsh is better since you kind of get both the benefits of python and a shell like language, but frankly it's broken in a number of ways still. I use it daily, but hopefully you don't need to ctrl-c out of something since signal handling is iffy at best. It is kind of nice to be able to import python directly on the command line and use it as python though...