>>I also believe that Python is more accepted in the US than in Germany, possibly more than in Europe.
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>You may right. My feeling, or should I say my assumption - this is certainly not supported by fact - is that python is accepted in business circles that not too risk-adverse. And Europe is certainly more risk adverse than the US...

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>Among python supporters, the Web-dev community has been central right from the start. That was a weak point in the 90s as Web-dev was a marginal IT business. As we are all fully aware, the Web is now a very significant business per se. The python community - I am going to a "community event" in Paris to-night is essentially, from an financing POV, a Web-dev, say Django and al, community.

after initial uphill battle we tried to get numbers - counting job offers, roughly ranked in interest/common knowledge/job topic
We came to the same conclusion, Python was asked mainly for web jobs here.
% of Python jobs higher in the US, nearly double, but this does not say much as both were low, so a multiplicator might have a high margin of error.