I work in python at my day-to-day but I have to say that python is far more guilty of announcing a library that does X, web or no, than any other language.
That's just due to python's batteries-included mentality. Those guys are proud that there's libraries to do damn near anything. If you pick your libraries well, it's astonishing how little python you actually need to write sometimes.
I wrote a rather robust screenscraper in 65 lines when I first started at my company.
So yes, I know that the batteries-included mentality is there, I'm just saying that they don't need to announce it constantly on all my news aggregators. I can just google it if/when I need it.
And if you don't google for a library to solve a problem you're working on before you start coding, you're being a little more than silly.
Edit: Woof, somebody went on a code crusade and later found out a library existed methinks from the downvoting. ;)
