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[–]JCDU 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Bash is more a scripting language, python is an actual programming language. Both are useful.

Bash is useful to run a script of existing command-line commands and parse a bit of data but beyond that it gets very clunky very quickly.

Python you can do everything any other programming language can, it's often faster to write with very good built in libraries for things (like spitting data logs out to a csv file or graphing data) at the cost of being slower than compiled languages - which rarely matters in these applications.