That trace back to Apple's efforts with MacRuby, or Sun's (for a while Netbeans even had Ruby support).
The Ruby JITs I mentioned are used in production.
While other dynamic language comunities embrace their JITs, in Python world, outside using it as a DSL for GPGPU JITs, it is pretty much let's just keep using CPythion with C and C++ extensions. Adding a JIT to CPython only became a thing after Facebook and Microsoft decided to push for its development.