Python as a scripting language. Alternative to bash script?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <op.ve06nlvia8ncjz at gnudebst>, Rhodri James wrote:

> Classic Unix programming is a matter of stringing a bunch of tools
> together with pipes to get the output you want.  This isn't a great
> paradigm for GUIs (not without tweaking that hasn't really been done), but
> then again it was never meant to be.

I’ve never come across any system where you could string together multiple 
GUI apps, or even multiple GUI operations in the same app, in any sensible 
or effective way at all. GUIs just aren’t designed to work that way.

The command line (or scripting, the difference isn’t that important) remains 
the only workable way to string together complex combinations of simpler 
operations.