With iterpipes, python is ready to replace bash for scripting. Really.
This has been a pet peeve of mine for years: programming shell scripts suck. They are ugly and error prone. The only reason why we still do it? There is no real replacement.
Or at least that was the case, until today I met iterpipes at python.reddit.com
Iterpipes is "A library for running shell pipelines using shell-like syntax" and guess what? It's brilliant.
Here's an example from its PYPI page:
# Total lines in *.py files under /path/to/dir,
# use safe shell parameters formatting:
>>> total = cmd(
... 'find {} -name {} -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l | tail -1 | awk {}',
... '/path/to/dir', '\*.py', '{print $1}')
>>> run(total | strip() | join | int)
315
Here's how that would look in shell:
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