I choose PowerShell over Python when I need to call out to an existing command line utility, because I find the Python subprocess module is a huge pain in the ass.
PowerShell has about 80% of the power and readability of Python, while actually being a native shell.
Yeah, that’s fair. I was wondering if you’d call that out. Popen is rather opaque. I don’t know that I’d go so far as to try to remember yet another language to avoid it. I respect the decision though, especially with the portability of modern PowerShell.
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Good question.
I choose PowerShell over Python when I need to call out to an existing command line utility, because I find the Python subprocess module is a huge pain in the ass.
PowerShell has about 80% of the power and readability of Python, while actually being a native shell.
Yeah, that’s fair. I was wondering if you’d call that out.
Popenis rather opaque. I don’t know that I’d go so far as to try to remember yet another language to avoid it. I respect the decision though, especially with the portability of modern PowerShell.I think you’d like the alternatives that mix languages with Shell. See Google’s zx or (shameless plug) my pysh for instance.