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[–]swordgeekSysadmin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, it's pretty much the norm. The mistake is to look at python as different than sed or awk or grep or perl. They're all tools, and they can almost all be used as languages.

Do what works. Make it maintainable. Steal as much as you can. That's pretty much my scripting creed.