script files with python (instead of tcsh/bash)?

[Joe Riopel]

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 9:26 AM, Esmail <ebonak at hotmail.com> wrote:
> In any case, the scripts are starting to look pretty hairy and I was
> wondering if it would make sense to re-write them in Python. I am not
> sure how suitable it would be for this.

Are these scripts run on computers that are guaranteed to have Python
installed? If not, can you install Python on them?

I use Python when I can, but sometimes shell scripts just makes sense. T