python on Mac

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In article <1hdl37l.1mvgfva12tsntwN%aleaxit at yahoo.com>,
 aleaxit at yahoo.com (Alex Martelli) wrote:

>Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>
>> In article <1144293362.889863.146200 at i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
>>  "pierreth" <pthibault33 at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>> 
>> >You removed /usr/bin/python! This is a really bad idea
>> 
>> Is there any way to put it back, short of a full system reinstall?
>
>There's a free 3rd party tool known as Pacifist to extract part-installs
>from Apple's system DVDs...

So there's no simple equivalent of "rpm --replace-pkgs"?