I did almost this exact same thing back in 2005. I had not programmed anything in YEARS and I had to help write part of a system that performed DB queries, scre

I did almost this exact same thing back in 2005. I had not programmed anything in YEARS and I had to help write part of a system that performed DB queries, screen scraped, file transfers, etc. In a 24 period I tried Java, Perl and Python and in the end Python won by miles and miles. I now use Python daily for all sorts of tasks. I love it.