Thanks! The issue right now really is the Googlability.

I just searched for "Installing python modules" and of the top 5-6 hits (listed below) none of them mentioned the advice you just gave. The Python 2.7 docs don't mention it at all under their installing modules page. Everything's about RPM and Distutils.

http://docs.python.org/2/install/index.html

http://docs.python.org/release/2.2p1/inst/inst.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/739993/get-a-list-of-inst...

https://my.bluehost.com/cgi/help/530

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9714635/how-to-install-py...

http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=25044

On the flip side, 'installing ruby gems' does tell you about the gem application, but doesn't mention bundler in the top 5 results.