That's because regexes are an another pain in Python, You have to write a lot of boiler plate exception handling code. Plus the same boiler plate code for file operations.
It doesn't feel like the language was designed for these tasks.
It doesn't feel like the language was designed for these tasks.
That's missing what I'm noting though, which is that you don't need pipes anywhere near a shell script if you can simply do more of your work in-language. Case in point being that the entire pipeline you cited as an issue has no reason to exist outside of a shell or shell script.