functional or object-oriented?

[beza1e1]

This nails it down, yes. :)

I probably was too deep into OOP thinking-mode to work pythonic. So i
am now rediscovering the python way.

Have you read Paul Grahams On Lisp (or was it one of his essays)? He is
strongly in favor of functional programming. Mainly because Lisp favors
it. He does say though, simulations and CAD programs are inherently OO.
But now i am writing a game modelling engine, i find objects are not
the best way anytime in these fields either.