Check out marcel (https://marceltheshell.org). Marcel is a shell that allows the use of Python functions, and pipes Python values between commands. E.g. remove the files/directories listed in victims.txt (one per line):

     read victims.txt | args [f: rm -rf (f)]

Parens delimit Python expressions, so (f) just returns the value of f, one of the values read from victims.txt.

Marcel also provides a Python module so that Python can be used for scripting much more conveniently than in straight Python (i.e. without the marcel module). E.g., print the names of recently changed files in the current directory:

    import os
    from marcel.api import *

    for file in (ls(os.getcwd(), file=True, recursive=True) |
                 select(lambda f: now() - f.mtime < days(1))):
        print(file)