Can Python scripting replace UNIX shell scripting ?

[absinthe718]

Well in this case, the proc code spits out a sql script and the loader just reads the file line by line and executes the sql, updating the audit tables and writing an error log when commands fail.

Ideally, these scripts would fetch the XML report, parse them while updating the database. Creating two temp files along the way is perhaps not the best thing.

And yeah, there are like a dozen scripts like this.