Python itself is memory-safe, but you're right that a good chunk of the packaging ecosystem uses memory unsafe languages for performance and interop. The Pytho

Python itself is memory-safe, but you're right that a good chunk of the packaging ecosystem uses memory unsafe languages for performance and interop. The Python Software Foundation noted this in our response to the US Government RFI on open source security. There are efforts to make using Rust easier as a systems language for Python packages and some security-critical packages like 'cryptography' have migrated to Rust.