Replacing AWK with Python in GCC?

Maybe you should make your offer to convert these scripts to perl officially on the list so they can be considered. Mind you, they'd probably also want a commitment from you to maintain them as well.

Commenting on it here is all well and good, but the discussion is moving towards python, at least partly, because no one has come forward and said they'd move the scripts to perl. If you don't make the offer it's not there for consideration.