This maybe chicken-and-egg, but Google standardised very early on on Python (along with Java and C++) for their internal work, and sponsored a lot of the open s

This maybe chicken-and-egg, but Google standardised very early on on Python (along with Java and C++) for their internal work, and sponsored a lot of the open source infrastructure. So even though Ruby attracted a lot of attention for a big chunk of time, there was no diminishing in the baseline popularity and functioning of the Python ecosystem.