[teilo]

On a clean installation of Mavericks, you should install the latest version of setuptools before you install anything else, as setuptools 0.6 is very broken:

  wget https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py -O - | python

[SnowLprd]

Homebrewed Python includes the latest versions of pip and setuptools, making the command you suggested only necessary if you plan on sticking with the bundled system Python (which isn't recommended for reasons discussed in other comments here).