Is there a way of using webdriverbackedselenium in python, as in

selenium =
  webdriverbackedselenium(driver,"http://www.google.com")
In the meantime, one could manually write wrapper class that routes Selenium RC calls to WebDriver equivalent. I did some work on that for PHP, it's not that hard, though not all functions can be ported, but a majority can. And the process is similar across languages in terms of code flow / algorithm to wrap the calls.
webdriverbackedselenium in python