[Python-ideas] Python as a tool to download stuff for bootstrapping

This one is practical. I am looking at NaCl SDK download page: https://developers.google.com/native-client/sdk/download "you need Python installed", "download SDK update utility" What makes me sad that update utility is a Python script in a zip file - nacl_sdk.zip which includes shell script and a .bat file for launching this Python script. This makes me kind of sad. You have Python installed. Why can't you just crossplatformly do: mkdir nacl cd nacl python -m urllib get http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/nativeclient-mirror/nacl/nacl_sdk/up... python update_sdk.py