Nice article on the issue: http://www.jeffknupp.com/blog/2012/03/31/pythons-hardest-problem/ 

Saw it first from this G+ post by Ian Bicking (now at Mozilla, creator of VirtualEnv, pip and towtruck among a host of other Python and JavaScript tools) https://plus.google.com/+IanBicking/posts/SY6745qEQAb 

Martin.