Bower solves a real problem, but needing node.js and npm for something that doesn't otherwise involve any server-side Javascript sucks. If you're interested in the event that motivated this tool, check out:
http://zenhack.net/2015/06/06/openshift-bower-and-dependency-bloat.html
What bower does isn't very complex. There's no reason I should need to pull in all that extra dependency bloat just to deploy my app.
MicroBower is a re-implementation of just enough of bower to fetch
assets for a project, given that it already has a bower.json and
.bowerrc. It's implemented in pure python, with no dependencies other
git and the python standard library, and should work on python 2.7 or
later (including python 3).
This is still WIP.