After some discussion and technical analysis, a test will be done hosting Python libraries silently in the Ovi repository later this week. Stay tuned in this thread.

This test is for free of charge applications only and the unsupported status of these libraries keeps being the same. This is the practical step we could make to answer the community request at this point.

Supporting paid applications would imply either shipping the libraries in the firmware image (meaning official support and growth of the already big image) or making architecture changes in the way Ovi Store and the Application Manager backends work (something out of scope at this stage of Maemo 5).

The situation for MeeGo-Harmattan is still open. Let's run this test for Maemo 5 and then let's evaluate what to do next.

This could be a huge differentiator. With only C++ as an official development choice, this situations is basically the same as that fruit company. No matter about support for other tools in general, a solution that specifically gives python support can make the Maemo/Meego products a clear choice for a lot of projects.
It can also allow more software to appear first on these Meego- even if this early product is not a commercial version.

Any further progress....does seem like it has been a week?

I'm cautiously optimistic over Python's prospects here. It has a lot of support in and around Nokia.

And finally nothing...