python to perl conversion?

[Eugene Leitl]

Ivan Van Laningham writes:

 > Oooh, yuck!  We've had requests for Perl-to-Python before, but never for
 > this.  (Gag me with a Perl-handled spoon.)

What's the consensus for the best (=less painful) way to call a perl
module from Python? There is this interesting thing called bioperl
http://bio.perl.org/ , which is both 1) very useful 2) in vigorous
development, so porting it is out of question.