One measurement by which Python is more popular than Ruby, Java, Perl, PHP and .NET is in the world of Podcasts. At Podcastalley, podcasts are ranked by popularity in each of several genre's. In the "Technology" genre there are 1026 podcasts listed and ranked, and of the ones that are about programming languages and related areas, they show up in the rankings like this:
32. Python411 44. Perlcast 49. ProPHP 99. DotNetRocks 120. JavaCast and the Ruby on Rails podcast is not even ranked due to receiving zero votes ;-))) Just alight hearted comparison. The Python411 podcast sereis can be found at <a href="http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.html">Python411</a> and you can subscribe to it by rss at http://www.awaretek.com/python/index.xml Python411 is a series of podcasts aimed at those who are learning Python. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list