diff --git a/lib/qwandry/launcher.rb b/lib/qwandry/launcher.rb
index b3ca0bf..569f1bd 100644
--- a/lib/qwandry/launcher.rb
+++ b/lib/qwandry/launcher.rb
@@ -101,6 +101,14 @@ module Qwandry
         add :perl, path, :class=>Qwandry::LibraryRepository
       end
       
+      # add python repositories:
+      python_paths = `python -c 'import sys;print \"\\n\".join(sys.path)'` rescue ''
+      python_paths.split("\n").reject{|path| path == '' || path == '.' || path =~ /\.zip$/ || path =~/lib-dynload$/}.each do |path|
+        add :python, path, :class=>Qwandry::LibraryRepository, :reject => /\.(py[oc])|(egg-info)$/
+      end
+      
+      # Qwandry is a ruby app after all, so activate ruby and rubygems by default.  Other defaults can be set
+      # with a custom init.rb
       activate :ruby, :gem
     end