Guido is a great example of the right leader for a software project. Always kind, knowing how to delegate, knowing which are his limitations and encouraging other people to step up.
https://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=235725
I have to say though, and this probably is me because I'm not that deeply invested into the Python community, but I don't really know anyone else in the Python community who represents the core language. In most other programming language projects of this size there are a multiple people who are public faces of the language itself, beyond the first people who designed it.
Alex Miller and Stuart Halloway immediately jump to mind as lieutenants that could jump in and take over without too much disruption.
> Erlang
Well, there's also Roberts and Mike (reference, for those not familiar: https://youtu.be/xrIjfIjssLE?t=213).
* David Beasley * Raymond Hettinger * Yuri Selivanov
I’m sure there are more but those are the first few that come to mind.