There are C extensions for the Pandas library! This means no need to reinvent the wheel (or the data frame that holds the draw histories).

That was found in the pandas documentation, so I just have to download the pandas c extensions and put the directory into the include path when compiling.

This is huge as the initial algorithm can stay intact.

There are also csv file write commands that are functionally equivalent to their python counterparts. 

Researching the operations to have a better shot at first time success with the translation from Python to C. Not as scary as first imagined.