Patches for Python scripts

[Pavel Sanda]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2021 at 11:07:43AM +0000, José Abílio Matos wrote:
> With the extent of the patches I fear that there could be bugs (unintended 
> changes) lurking specially in relation to python 2.

Riki's call, but I don't think this is the best time for python scripts overhaul.
Except the changes fixing real bugs we should IMHO postpone these to post 2.4 world.

Pavel