I invite folks to check out Tiobe's Language Popularity Rankings: http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
The gist is: Python grew faster than any other programming language over the last year, according to this (slightly arbitrary, but better than no indicator) ranking. ...despite our wikipedia page whose first paragraph almost seems like it was written with the intention of scaring off new converts, with its "unusual" comment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 (Like it or not, people do frequently confuse the descriptive for the normative) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
