I remember asking Bud about the Python book he was carrying around after class. Appearently the guy who created Python Guido van Rossum works for Google. I don't know if he is a full time employee or a consultant. Anyway Python is used by google extensively.
Python does away with a lot of the endless bookkeeping that you find in C++ and Java—saying 10 times over that your variable is a list of integers, things like that. Built into the language are more data types with more operations, giving you a more expressive and concise notation for dealing with those things.
Here is an article in which van Rossum is interviewed.