Thank you guys for all the good advice. All be working on defining a clearer problem (I think this advice is good for all areas of life).
I appreciate the help, the python community looks really open to learners and beginners, hope to be helping people myself in not too long from now (well, reasonably long to learn the theory and mature with it of course) ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list