Comment 3 for bug 32228

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John Moser (nigelenki) wrote :

It doesn't seem like something a typical user or even an administrator would do, more something python fans would pick up.

If I wanted something to, say, replicate my users to LDAP or Active Directory, things that can easily be done with a few shell commands, I'd write a bash script. If I wanted something to sort large numbers of files, I'd write a bash script. If I wanted to add some kind of quick 'less' or 'file' thing to Nautilus, I'd write a bash script that used Zenity.

The only time I'd see someone using Python to script something is if the thing they're scripting integrates with Python (GIMP); or if they're actually writing some larger program (ClamTK et al, a GUI full-featured LDAP administration tool....). This places Python in the category of "Things only a developer is going to use," and thus in an area that I don't feel is interesting to the general user base even considering more saavy administrators.