[marcosdumay]

On Linux, you settle on a single interpreter, and makes a virtualenv for each project. Make sure to never install anything systemwide. On Windows, get used to your system being broken (oh, no problem, you already are), but it won't be because of python.

That's basically the same instructions you will have for ruby and javascript. Ruby package management is about as good as python's, while javascript is a toxic wasteland.

There are languages with better dependency management, and languages with worse ones (ok, not worse than javascript, no dependency management is still better than javascript). But python and ruby do not have much difference.