[pjmlp]

Community.

Smalltalk, Self, Lisp, are highly dynamic, their JIT research are the genesis of modern JIT engines.

For some strange reason, Python community rather learns C, calls it "Python", instead of focusing why languages that are just as dynamic, have managed already a few decades ago.

[kzrdude]

Python has a longtime connection to C and somehow I think Python is a dynamic language in the C tradition, not of any other community, maybe the same thing your are hinting.

Hard to put a finger on what exactly, but Python has never been so interested in purity, rather in pragmatic functionality and it ends up in a place where it gives access to C style idioms and API, see for example the os module.

Maybe it is that Python doesn't have it's own model of the world, but it provides a dynamic language facade to the C model of the world.