There's pretty much never a "why". Fashion is fashion.
You can look back at some things that occured and say "well it's because it's easy" or whatever, but to be rigourous you'd have to also apply that to the languages that _didn't_ win, and the reasons that they didn't win to Python, and at best there's loose correlation.
This is the same as people that point to "why" billionaires are billionaires. There's a whole lot of luck to it that you can't discount.
Further, I'd question the premise. It's clearly the first thing that people reach for in ML and in the top 3 for web backends. But it hasn't always been that way and it won't always be. Programmers have way too much ADD and contrarianism for any such state of affairs to last for long. And in other spaces and even in other social circles it would be unheard of.
You can look back at some things that occured and say "well it's because it's easy" or whatever, but to be rigourous you'd have to also apply that to the languages that _didn't_ win, and the reasons that they didn't win to Python, and at best there's loose correlation.
This is the same as people that point to "why" billionaires are billionaires. There's a whole lot of luck to it that you can't discount.
Further, I'd question the premise. It's clearly the first thing that people reach for in ML and in the top 3 for web backends. But it hasn't always been that way and it won't always be. Programmers have way too much ADD and contrarianism for any such state of affairs to last for long. And in other spaces and even in other social circles it would be unheard of.