Beem is really good. I use JS myself but do end up doing things in python from time to time and I usually use Beem for that.
My vote bots I've ended up building an extensive blacklist for them as well as monitoring the votes after they have been cast since it looks like the following of the bot takes the post to a pretty high payout now(just look at this post as an example :P ).
So yeah I guess some blacklisting is necessary for this bot to run, I have not really started it up yet, perhaps I should think about doing a bot for figuring out who to blacklist.
Lots of interesting things to look at.