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

[anatoly techtonik]

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/update_sdk.py
  python update_sdk.py