Fredrik Lundh couldn't make it to IPC6, but he is reportedly working on a development environment-type tool for Python. Watch Pythonware for some exciting product announcements in 1998. And commercial Python support is now available from a company called Python Professional Services . This list isn't complete, since some companies consider Python to be a strategic advantage. Both promise to be killer apps.
Conference papers appear at python.org .
Based on combined book sales of all Python books, there are probably at least one hundred thousand Python users out there today. In fact, the Python newsgroup's traffic has shown signs of exponential growth. If you want to add an item to an advocacy page, or want to help maintain one, please drop me an email .