Python is fast at doing anything that doesn't involve running Python. That's an important caveat. Python's C JSON parser library is super-fast, but if you want

Python is fast at doing anything that doesn't involve running Python. That's an important caveat. Python's C JSON parser library is super-fast, but if you want to use the data for anything but a simple equality check afterwards, it'll be slow as molasses. Or you'll write a C extension for it...