Python as a scripting language. Alternative to bash script?

[Emile van Sebille]

On 7/5/2010 11:02 AM Tim Harig said...
>  Automating GUI applications requires interal
> access to the program through some kind of interface and, ideally, decent
> documention of the interface, something that is missing from many, if
> not most, GUIs.  Anything else relies on ugly and, generally fragile,
> mechanisms to intercept the programs output and send event triggers to
> the application.

I've been doing the 'anything else...' stuff for years now without 
issue, so ugly, yes, but fragile, not really.

Unless you let users on the same machine...

Emile