Reading through http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_comprehension, it seems that there are roughly equal numbers of languages where "list comprehension" produces strict list as languages where it produces lazy lists.

I think it's a lack of naming convention - the word "list" on its own means "strict list" in some languages and "lazy list" in others.

I don't agree, people are more likely to come from python that to python from a language that has lazy list comprehensions. But regardless, using a language requires that you learn it and I doubt many people think list comp is lazy. Pythonic programming obeys explicit over implicit, which which if you want a lazy version you explicitly use a lazy version.