> Installation of modules within the source directory - no need of a virtualenv. This isn't always good news, but it's generally pretty useful. This isn't real

> Installation of modules within the source directory - no need of a virtualenv. This isn't always good news, but it's generally pretty useful. This isn't really a feature of npm or a failing of pip. Isn't this more of an evaluation of Node.js vs. Python? I'm sure that if Python loaded a local python_modules directory by default, pip would use it.