Chia Dev Team et al, was the plotting algorithm ever prototyped in python?

Hey everyone.

I am considering pushing off with the development project of attempting to port the chia plotting process to python. I see the project as an opportunity to make the plotting algorithm more approachable to a wider portion of global developers, as well as a potential testing area for new optimization concepts (but at the cost of speed of course).

I made a post on Reddit trying to confirm that I wasn’t about to recreate the wheel, and a user recommended I post here to check if a plotter prototype was ever written in python which could act as a starting point: