Not only that. A lot of the modules in the Python standard library are written in C; some may be thin wrappers over the corresponding C library. So when you cal

Not only that. A lot of the modules in the Python standard library are written in C; some may be thin wrappers over the corresponding C library. So when you call that code in your app, it runs at (nearly) the speed of C. Same could apply to other languages like Ruby too, that follow that model.