It's hilarious in these discussions that every time someone comes to show how they can do the equivalent code in much less lines of bash there are always always always bugs of these sorts.

And then the parent even specifically pointed out that files with spaces would be a minefield.

Also complaining about looking up docs is just a matter of where you have your knowledge. I would have the opposite problem to understand the "idiosyncrasies" of what the -d flag into cut does whereas I know the python standard library by heart.