Sure, you could even argue that PHP was a success despite the PHP language (which was, in the beginning, only a cobbled-together templating language, and then,

Sure, you could even argue that PHP was a success despite the PHP language (which was, in the beginning, only a cobbled-together templating language, and then, to Rasmus Lerdorf's dismay, people started to implement their backend logic in the templating language), and Python could have done it, but, well, they didn't...