"Chas Emerick"
One thing that would help Python in this "debate"
In general, discussion of promoting/marketing python is more a topic for comp.lang.python than for this list. Also see below.
My suggestion would be to either: (a) include JPype in the standard library, or barring that,
Externally developed modules become part of the standard library by becoming sufficiently 'widely' tested and used in the Python community. One means for this is announcement and discussion in c.l.p. That and technical considerations aside, this strikes me as one of several specialized 'bridge' tools, none of which should be in that standard lib but all of which should be listed and accessible in the Python Package Index.
(b) make a very strong push to support JPype
We are mostly all volunteers here. Go ahead and scratch this itch if you want. If it does not yet already, I would agree that python.org should have a page on bridging between Python and other languages (not just Java, though). C.l.py would be a place to discuss the idea and collect suggestions for inclusion on such a page
For our part, we've used JPype to make PDFTextStream (our previously Java-only PDF text extraction library) available and supported for Python.
Success strories that provide new information are welcome on c.l.py. Perhaps a couple of paragraphs summarizing the content that you link to. Terry Jan Reedy