Thanks Giles, I was hoping for a reply from someone close to Praxis like yourself, but, I'm shocked when you said they use Perl as their scripting language of choice, because I thought that with such an emphasis on correctness and maintainability, that it would spill over into other aspects of their flow.
Maybe they don't see scripting as part of their flow, but as merely occasional 'duct tape'? I did find an email address on the page you specified and have invited Praxis to join in on this thread, or comment on Python in general. - Paddy. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list