People are working (or planning to work) on some of those: * pip (sort of): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0439/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0439/

People are working (or planning to work) on some of those: * pip (sort of): http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0439/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0439/ * virtualenv: already in Python 3.3 * requests: http://kushaldas.in/posts/notes-from-language-summit-at-pycon.html http://kushaldas.in/posts/notes-from-language-summit-at-pyco... As for IPython, many would agree it's not suitable for inclusion, which is not necessarily a bad thing. That does not stop anyone from stealing some of its features for inclusion in the default interactive interpreter though.