@sirber @amin scratch the mighty #python and invariably you find some C/C++ lib that is as high performance as can get. Case in point the #lxml lib for parsing whatever you fetch from the web...
https://pypi.org/project/lxml/
Where python speed will let you down performance wise is if you write "naive" code for a computationally intense task and dont use something like #numpy, #cython etc.