Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.

3recommend
0warn against
Dec 13, 2025first mention
May 23, 2026latest mention
Nov 25 – Oct 26
Used forcalling shell commands from pythonrunning shell commands from pythonrunning shell commands in python

Why people recommend it

dmdMay 23, 2026recommends

“have you seen https://sh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/”

“I love how this import trick shows how hackable Python is”

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“One thing I can recommend that makes scripting in python with external commands a lot easier is the `sh` module”

Caveats and dissent

No one in these comments warned against it.

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dmdMay 23, 2026recommends

“have you seen https://sh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/”

“I love how this import trick shows how hackable Python is”

“uv for using sh as a dependency in scripts”

“One thing I can recommend that makes scripting in python with external commands a lot easier is the `sh` module”

Threads where it came up

Data: sh.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.

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