Reasoning: I'm trying to convert a large library from Scheme to Python
Are there any good strategies for doing this kind of conversion? Specifically cross-paradigm in this case since Python is more OO and Scheme is Functional.
Totally subjective so I'm making it community wiki
If you don't have time to do as the others have suggested and actually re-implement the functionality, there is no reason you CAN'T implement it in a strictly functional fashion.
Python supports the key features necessary to do functional programming, and you might find that your time was better spent doing other things, especially if absolute optimization is not required. On the other hand, you might find bug-hunting to be quite hard.
Advice on translating code from very unrelated languages (in this case Scheme to Python)?