*grins*. Sorry about that.

I wasn't criticising you're choice of language; my point was that writing it in python is a perfectly reasonable thing to do. That my brain immediately decided to translate it into Perl in order to understand it either displays an excessive bias towards Perl, or a fluency in it that vastly exceeds that which I possess in most other languages.
Whichever it is; I feel this needs to be rectified ;}