Why is Python popular, while Lisp and Scheme aren't?

[Terry Reedy]

"Alexander Schmolck" <a.schmolck at gmx.net> wrote in message
news:yfslm3ibyb7.fsf at black132.ex.ac.uk...
> Similarly also can't see a good conceptual or pragmatic reason why
all lists
> shouldn't have .get, .items. etc. indeed a .get method for sequence
types
> would be often quite useful and being able to write
>
>   for i, elt in seq.items():...

In 2.3, I believe, this will be spelled seq.enumerate()

tjr