Is there any reason that I should not use Python to automate tasks?

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  • xonsh

    :shell: Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell.

  • Fundamentally there's no reason why bash is "better" for this, its just more typical to write short scripts in it. If you do just want to stick to python it might be worth looking into xonsh which is essentially python in the the shell.

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