And no, I'm not a machine ...
By definition, a machine does "work".
I'm too busy playing for that.
Well I 'ment that in a good way.

Yup, that is the cable.

So PYTHON v's VB how similar or which is best / more suited?
That is a loaded question. Could start a heated debate...

Not similar at all. There are a few GUI builders for Python but the strange thing is, not all of the GUIs are cross platform. Tk comes with the typical python install, cross platform, but some say it is not the prettiest.

The guy that invented python was/is a C programmer so python looks more like C at first glance.

More suited... ???
VB is pretty much locked to windows, we know that..., but if that does not bother you..
In the end I will say it depends on the person at the keyboard. They will both make reliable code.

I will bet you could have something up and running faster with VB. The link Darrel gave should really speed things up.