Merits of replacing bash with python

[phil hunt]

On Sun, 19 May 2002 10:06:29 -0700, Brian Quinlan <brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:
>Kevin wrote:
>> I am pretty new to python and am looking for some good reasons to 
>> replace bash with python.
>
>Python is designed to be a general purpose programming language. I don't
>think that it would be convenient as a shell.

I rarely write any shell script more than about 4 lines long, and 
certainly none that use conditionals, loops or other control 
structures -- IMO Python is better than shell for all but the 
simplest things.

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