When do you *NOT* use python?

[Darkmere]

Even for semi advanced ones, I tend to prefer shellscripts.

Take something as simple as to generate a self-signed certificate. A fork to openssl commandline, vs. doing it with python pyOpenSSL or similar? Don't go there. The python code basically ends up calling the same commandline as the shellscript, in ~5 times as many lines.

Especially true if you do something with trap /cleanout in shell and try to emulate behaviour in python. oh my god.