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How to airdrop an eosio token

I am trying to create a new eosio token and airdrop it at a 1:1 ratio to all eosio accounts. I have a snapshot csv file with all the eosio account names, the public key, and EOS token balances. My idea to airdrop is as follows:

  1. create an account to issue the new token
  2. create the new token with the eosio.token contract, using the account created above as the issuer
  3. create a script that iterates over every account in the snapshot and issues my new token to each account at a 1:1 ratio with the eos tokens each already has.

I'm thinking I could make a short python script that reads the csv file, and then does an os call

'cleos push action eosio.token issue '["<account-from-snapshot","<new-quantity-based-off-snapshot","issuing new token"]' -p <my-issuer-account>'

for every account in the snapshot.

Has anyone done an airdrop before and could weight in on this procedure? Thanks a lot.