Just to let everyone know, I took a suggestion from Adam to rework the Python scripts to meet the PEP-8 style standards (which suits me well as I am more a code mechanic than a program developer). In the last two days I have only managed to process 12 files and my initial estimation that this was NOT a trivial task were confirmed. Part of the slow pace is caused by my having to live in the Python language reference docs and being a complete tyro at Python coding.
Some of the difficulties are changing certain code practices (using isinstance() instead of using if type(x) == some type) and removing obsolete usages that will not be in Python3 (has_key..) Some of the deep indenting forces some creative implied continuation lines and seems to defeat the purpose of making the code easily readable. I am looking for input from the community where to break the rules of PEP-8 for the sake of readability.
I have tested the modified code as well as I can but more exhaustive testing will be needed to make sure I don't break something.
Also looking for suggestions as to the best way to submit the modified code. I am not set up to use a git repository and I'm not really familiar with using a version control system (comes from being an obsolete programmer.. ah, the good old days when everything was confusion!).