I will say coming from years of perl that python had a refreshing amount of "batteries included" via the standard library.
It was only rarely that my code needed "outside help", usually something like requests or numpy.
I suspect this is because I used python in the same environment as perl, automating unixy kinds of things.
I suspect "setting up an environment" is because python has been so successful, becoming an enormously broad general language.
I will say coming from years of perl that python had a refreshing amount of "batteries included" via the standard library.
It was only rarely that my code needed "outside help", usually something like requests or numpy.
I suspect this is because I used python in the same environment as perl, automating unixy kinds of things.
I suspect "setting up an environment" is because python has been so successful, becoming an enormously broad general language.