Is python very slow compared to C

[bonono at gmail.com]

bearophileHUGS at lycos.com wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano>Very slow to do what, compared to what? The decay time
> of the tau meson?<
>
> Probably every answer I can give you is wrong for you, so answering is
> almost useless... In this thread we have already given the most
> pertinent answers to the original question from Diffuse.
> I can show you this page, but I think this is useless too for you:
> http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=ocaml
>

This is even more interesting:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/gp4/benchmark.php?test=all&lang=python&lang2=lua

However, to me, the strength of python is the batteries that is
included(and there are more and more coming).