That’s true, but it’s not really a characteristic of Python specifically. You could replace “Python” with basically any other language (yes, even languages with

That’s true, but it’s not really a characteristic of Python specifically. You could replace “Python” with basically any other language (yes, even languages with “zero cost” abstractions like Rust or C++) and the statement “readability comes at the cost of performance” would still hold true. Poor performance is simply not an intrinsic property of the syntax/grammar of Python.