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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by swirepe on Friday October 23, 2020 @08:19PM (#24875782)
I'm curious what scripting tasks you do with python? I've found bash to be more than enough for everything I'd like to script, except for maybe stuff with heavy json processing (still doable with `jq`)
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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by mplewis on Saturday October 24, 2020 @04:35AM (#24877799)
Anything with a non-trivial program flow, e.g. "do thing A, B, or C, and optionally mixin arguments D and E, with caching in between the shared steps."

Lots of deploy scripts look like this.

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Re:Four features that justify a new Unix shell by ed25519FUUU on Saturday October 24, 2020 @01:37AM (#24877207)
Many things that talk API and are writing/receiving json. Also I greatly prefer argparse.

jq is nice but also a system dependency.

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