Given how much of a pain in the ass it is to manage python packages, I'm not really that surprised. CPAN is distributed with perl, rubygems is packaged with ruby in most package managers, npm is actually a native part of the node project now. But pip (the only proper system for managing python packages in my opinion) isn't even a blessed third-party package, it's just another package on PyPI unless you know better already. I think python just has the trouble that they started off on the wrong foot before anyone knew what worked best, and they've been playing catch-up with various coats of paint on top of their proverbial pig.