Most modern distributions write their tools in Python instead of Perl. Proof: the really long transition process Fedora (and therefore RHEL), Debian and Ubuntu went through to migrate from Python 2 to 3. They could have done it faster if not for their system tools written in Python 2.

In the web space, Python is not huge, but it definitely supplanted the niche Perl used to have. No one I know writes web stuff in Perl anymore.