Pip ships with the official cpython interpreter, to the point there's even an "ensurepip" module in the standard library to install it if someone ripped it out.

Pip ships with the official cpython interpreter, to the point there's even an "ensurepip" module in the standard library to install it if someone ripped it out. There are multiple PEPs about pip. https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0453/ makes it as official as it gets.