Why isn't Python king of the hill?

[Pete Shinners]

"Martin von Loewis" <loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de> wrote
> While this is certainly a problem, it cannot explain the attention
> that Java gets over Python. When Java was young, debugging support was
> terrible also - yet it got attention from companies developing
> debuggers.

i think there was one crucial difference.
a marketing team using sun's deep pockets to get java out there.