I&#39;ve got my Python port all in shape now (still at <a href="https://gist.github.com/1471691">https://gist.github.com/1471691</a>), and hand it back to Nikita (I officially disclaim any copyright I might be entitled to because of it - not that such a translation should be copyrightable in the first place), so discussion on inclusion in Inkscape can now continue, with the perl dependency removed.<br>