Python as a scripting language. Alternative to bash script?

[Dave Pawson]

I'm the OP btw.

On 1 July 2010 18:10, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>> I think that Python "could" be a alternative to bash and have some
>> advantages, but it's a long way off from being fully implemented.
>
>        While a somewhat klutzier language in aspects (the , is both an
> parameter separator, AND the continued line indicator, leading to lines
> that end in , ,) I'd consider a decent* REXX implementation first...


>        Any program line that is not recognized as starting a REXX statement
> is automatically passed to the currently defined command processor. And
> one could ensure this by just quoting the first word on the line <G>

Useful.

However, I know Python, never looked at Rexx, so not much use to me.


Tks



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