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Shell scripting is an often forgotten programming environment, relegated to simple automation tasks and little else. In fact, it’s possible to achieve much more complex tasks in the shell.

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Shell scripts are not compiled — at least, not typically — so the shell only reads what it needs to do the work. ... ← Hackaday Podcast 113: Python Switching To Match, ...

More flexible interactive shell. Python 3.13 uses a new interactive shell by default, which has emerged from the PyPy project and offers significantly more convenience than the previous one.