My intention is to build a GUI for this app, yes, but given that I'm about a week old in my learning of Python, I thought a command-line app was a better place to start. I'm actually quite surprised at how featured I've managed to make this app all things considered, and now I'm running into things that aren't easy to do in Python (and probably also not easy to do in any scripting language on a Win machine), as opposed to not easy for me to work out.
I had thought to build GUIs in wxPython - is Tkinter any easier to learn? Much warmth, planetthoughtful -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
