[Rjevski]

CPAN packages are written by thousands of different people with varying styles (cf. the issue with 10 different ways of doing the same thing), quality standards and maintenance schedules.

In Python I can expect the standard library to be consistent and be maintained as part of the core language. Now I don't mean that everything has to be in the standard library (I'm fine with the database access libraries being third-party for example), but in Perl even the most basic stuff like exceptions is only on CPAN and there are again multiple packages to choose from..

[b2gills]

Unfortunately for Python is that many/most of the modules that are included were written when the language was fairly new, so at a time when nobody was an expert in the language.

Which means that perhaps for many of them there is a better module out in the ecosystem that almost nobody uses because they have one extra step to install them.

If you want something close to that in Perl 6, just install Inline::Python and you can use all of those “batteries included” with Python as if they were modules written in Perl 6.

Exceptions in Perl 6 are much easier to deal with than they are in Perl 5.