Python was favored by universities, professors and the like a long time ago. Maybe it just had this academic feel to it. This is even why it started to pick up

Python was favored by universities, professors and the like a long time ago. Maybe it just had this academic feel to it. This is even why it started to pick up in AI / ML / etc space. Some students that used it during class may also carry on with it. It was also common for sysadmins before Go took over. A lot of the earlier tools were Python based. Usually languages are created by people and because people like it.