I managed to be able to try PhilC's script for weight-mapping a figure. This seems to work well. However, setting animatable joints to 1 with text replacement in the .CR2 does NOT work. I couldnt diff the .CR2 to find out how that change is actually represented, but my text editor collapsed because the files were so hugh :)

We need also a script to set animatable joints to 1 to have maximal convenience.  Or find out how to do it with a text editor.