You have to dig through the documentation a bit on the website but all the info is there[1]

  from sh import mysqldump
  from sh import gzip

  gzip(mysqldump("example_db", _piped=True), _out="dump.sql.gz")

or if you don't want the magic import thing:

  import sh
  sh.gzip(sh.mysqldump("example_db", _piped=True), _out="dump.sql.gz")

It's definitely foreign to shell scripting languages since the piping syntax is a bit different & you have to remember to do `_piped=True` since it's not parallel by default. But the default behavior is pipefail & exit on the command failing IIRC so it's more of a choose your poison thing (do you want a subtle perf issue or a subtle bug in your script not handling error states correctly). And I find it easier to read. + if you want to customize anything about gzip or not rely on needing the binary in the path, then you can just switch it to Python-native gzip pretty easily.

That's my favorite feature. Conciseness if I'm just translating a script with progressive complexity options to migrate things that need more complexity or different requirements within the same script without having to rewrite it from scratch.

[1] https://amoffat.github.io/sh/