BerislavLopac

Why don't the shovel-sellers hire a bunch of people to dig for gold, instead of just selling shovels?

Exactly. I like to say that Python is one of the fastest languages if you measure by metrics other than "raw processing speed". One very important metric is speed of development - and due to a combination of lack of the compilation step, its dynamic nature, ecosystem of libraries and clean syntax, very few languages can match Python in that regard.