[Pxtl]

Python was established as a fun and sensible language that was usable and batteries-included at a time when everything else was either expensive or excruciating, and has been coasting in that success ever since. If you'd only coded in bash, C/C++, and late-'90s Java, Python was a revelation.

Lists comprehensions were added to the language after it was already established and popular and imho was the first sign that the emperor might be naked.

Python 3 was the death of it, imho, since it showed that improving the language was just too difficult.