Python as a scripting language. Alternative to bash script?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <7xpqzbj8st.fsf at ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin wrote:

> ... and argc/argv were passed to the child process on its stack.

I’ve always felt that to be a misfeature. It means you can’t implement a 
self-contained argument-parsing library, it still needs the mainline to 
explicitly pass/put its arguments somewhere.