Batteries included or not, I can always find battery replacements in Python and that's what I love about it.
I agree that the breadth of high-quality python libraries is great... but in a language that believes
"There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it,"
it'd be nice if we weren't also looking for replacements for the standard library.
Do you want an excellent graph library? you have networkx. Do you need more speed? bind an existing C++ library with SWIG. If I want to use .NET or Java libraries there is IronPython and Jython. And you have two excellent IDEs: Visual Studio and PyCharm.