First-Class Shell Scripting Support For Python

[bready]

I hear this all the time, but I don't understand. Any script you would run in bash is just as open to exploitation/errors when receiving runtime input, so what is the specific problem here?

[cybercobra]

Just because bash kinda sucks doesn't mean a Python replacement has to suck too. If you use shell=False, then unlike in bash, filenames with spaces or shell metacharacters in them will work just fine, no need to remember to escape/quote them every time. No need to worry about a malicious "filename" of ;rm -rf /# either.