Would Python be suitable for a sports statistics website?

[britt.jonathan89 at gmail.com]

First off I wanted to apologize for the lack of specificity in my subject title. I am a relative newbie to programming and need some advice. I tried StackOverflow but was sort of turned away for not having code in my post. 

I have been assigned by an internship with my university's athletic department, to create a statistics website to be used by sports media during games. What this means is that the statistics are generated by a stats computer into an XML file and I am wanting to parse this XML file and place it on the web quickly. Not necessarily in real-time but in a matter of a couple of seconds. I'd like to make a clean, simple website to start off with that displays these statistics. 

I've been playing around with Javascript and jQuery and as a beginning programmer have really been in over my head. What I want to do is start completely over and actually try to learn a language before diving in. 

My question is, would Python be a suitable language for developing a website / web application that performs these tasks? I've been researching Python and it is the language I am most interested in learning. I've been messing around with IDLE and have really enjoyed the syntax. I've also been reading about Django / Tornado etc. Thank you all so much for your time.