Python bindings by default

[Quentin Stafford-Fraser]

Hello all - 

I'm wondering how difficult it would be for the Python bindings to be included in the standard distributions?

I suspect that many of the requests on the lists might be solved with a shortish Python plugin, but it's not a useful thing to suggest when most people can't take advantage of it.

I'm on a Mac, and, while I do have the knowledge and tools to go and compile everything from scratch, I haven't yet summoned up the willpower!  Many people would be much worse off than me!

There may be good reasons, of course, why it would make building the distros much harder, but I thought I'd ask!

Quentin