The tiobe index lists Java and C in those spots.
That list is ranking languages by current popularity, though, rather than 'importance'.
I'd define 'importance' as more along the lines of "amount of havoc created if all software written using that language were broken/deleted at once".
We should not give too much importance to this, but the fact is that Python is now ranked consistently #1, #2 or #3 in sufficiently many rankings to consider it seriously.