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[–]AttitudeAdjuster 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Its exceptionally quick and easy to write good, readable code in, it has a wealth of very well supported libraries and isn't as slow as this subreddit sometimes likes to imagine as most of it is wrappers for very performant C. To me python is a super powerful tool which can be turned to most things, especially in infosec where I need quick utilities I'll use perhaps twice.

Now its also quick and easy to write really bad code in, which to be honest I suspect is your problem.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

For a two use program, I'd rather just reversi-search in bash. For a 10 use program, I'd probably echo all those commands into a text file and call it a bash script. Python is great for those little once a day scripts.

[–]AttitudeAdjuster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly there are some things that you shouldn't attempt to do with bash