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The reason is that most web hosting companies do not support python out of the box, but they do support PHP. Users (bloggers) do not care about programming languages, they care that they can install a software with one click. They have that with WordPress, and if you want to beat WP, one of the major problems to solve is trivial install procedure which is a problem if your web hosting company does not support python.

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^this

The issue is getting the host to support python, not the creation of software using python

Dont you think thats because of the lack of blogging platforms, rather than the lack of hosts? I mean, most shared hosts support one click installs for Wordpress, but there is no alternative currently for a python clone of WP.

I guarantee you if there was a python CMS with any where near the adoption of Wordpress, python hosting would be alot easier to find.

How did WordPress achieve that level of adoption? By having web hosters support PHP out of the box and being good enough. If web hosters did not support PHP out of the box, there would be no WP.

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