I can't find a reference but I remember hearing a tale that Guido was contacted by Netscape just before Brendan Eich but wasn't interested. What an interesting parallel reality that conjours up.
Hmmmm. On second thoughts maybe we're be living in a world where Python was as maligned as Javascript.
1) There's certainly not "one way" to iterate in Python[1], and they're not even consistently named (xrange is the iterator version of range, but izip is the iterator version of zip).
2) You can use Python in the browser[2][3][4 sort of].