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Glad I'm not the only one. Honestly, whenever bash comes up in any context, 10 different people feel compelled to express this whole replace all bash scripts with python sentiment and I just have no clue what the fuck they're talking about.

I would consider myself an expert or at least near-expert in python, but I don't see opportunities to replace my shell scripts with python popping up left and right. Do you open files manually and set up pipe chains with subprocess.Popen? I've done this, and its generally many more LOC compared to the shell original, and harder to read.

On the other hand, I'd consider myself maybe 7/10 skill level with bash, but most developers are only ever a 2/10 or 3/10 with bash/shell. I can't help but think that the average developer's lack of shell understanding is where all these suggestions to convert to python come from. If it's that easy or beneficial to convert to python, then it probably should have been written in python originally.