> But Python is -dramatically- better focused, as a community, on finding a Pythonic way to proceed, and then advocating it, than previous cultures.

I would revise that to be that the pythonic culture of one acceptable way to to is better matched with a lot of good development practices.

Perl was also very good at finding a Perl way to proceed. It's just that with Perl that often mean a lot of implicitness and "do what I mean", and multiple ways to do it so you could fit it within your preferred style and tailor it to the current project's needs.

That all sounds good until you are confronted with the flip side of the coin, which is that it's harder to understand when looking at something written with those perspectives for the first time or after a long hiatus from the project, which puts a lot of importance on policy and coding standards which saps effort from just getting something done.

I love Perl, and it's still the language I write most often for work, and it's no great mystery why Python became preferred.