I feel like the entire industry has adopted Python's approach here, so probably Python doesn't stand out on this point as much as it did in the early days. Com

I feel like the entire industry has adopted Python's approach here, so probably Python doesn't stand out on this point as much as it did in the early days. Compare Python to C/C++, where even just getting a working binary from source is fraught with many competing tools. Or boost vs std and whatnot. Others have already pointed out the contrast with Perl.