Time to run my horrifying python code that builds a bash script that I use to repeatedly call some fortran code and make output I pull back into python for calculating telescope pointings.

My deepest apologies to everyone here who actually has training in making good software. I'm doing science!

(And no, I'm not looking for advice. Hilariously, this dumpster fire of code works well enough, and I don't need to improve it right now.)

@sundogplanets sounds legit to me 🤷🏼. My job as an engineer in astro is scale. If a scientist's pipeline works, correctly, often enough for its user base, without crashing other people's research, awesome. I can go build other things instead of wasting time sucking the joy out of other people's lives. (Also I have committed my share of terrible shell scripts.)