Is pyton for me?

[Mike Meyer]

Peter Hansen <peter at engcorp.com> writes:

> Kirk Job Sluder wrote:
>> I agree with this approach.  For me, there has to be a certain level of
>> complexity before I reach for python as a tool.
>
> For me as well.  In my case, the key question is "is this bash script
> going to be longer than two lines?".  If it would be, the Python
> approach will be done faster and will be more maintainable, since I
> often don't look at those scripts again for months and would tend to
> forget any bash syntax that I've learned in the meantime.

I tend to switch from sh to python when I start writing a loop. A long
list of repeated commands - even with conditionals - isn't to bad. But
when you start forking processes in a loop, it's time to use a more
powerful tool.

         <mike
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