On 12/06/2016 06:51 AM, Tim Chase wrote: > Based on the OP's description, this is a small part of a much larger > program. And I would personally rather maintain a large Python > code-base than a large Bash code-base.
Absolutely. Especially when you consider inxi is 12,000 lines of bash code in one file. Shudder. Though I'm sure bash made it very easy to interact with dozens or even hundreds of different external programs on dozens of operating systems and distributions to gather information. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list