Yeah, there's not a lot of point in having the python layer. Perl excels at these kinds of things. I'm guessing that the original developer just doesn't know

Yeah, there's not a lot of point in having the python layer. Perl excels at these kinds of things. I'm guessing that the original developer just doesn't know perl well enough to implement that part. Which is not to denegrate his work, but this could easily be a drop in single file perl executable if someone does the actual (not that much) work.