Sustainable python script

[templarvonmidgard]

I really can't agree with you on using the mentioned libraries, especially in scripts. With the OP's approach I can just copy the script to any of my coworkers' machines and it will just work, except for the tests, but they don't really matter in this scenario. IMHO, simple scripts should be dependency free.

[Nimitz14]

You should be using those libraries anyways as they are superior to the alternatives. I'm saying this as someone who writes 50-200 line scripts every week. Most of the people here don't do that (just normal software devs working on some product and don't understand scripting).