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then what is the sense behind the catkin_make command

catkin_make drives your compiler.

Python is not a compiled language.

So as soon as you have run catkin_make once (to have it setup your PYTHONPATH and other things), you don't need to run it anymore for non-compiled languages (such as Python).

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