The selling point of Node.js is asynchronous I/O. I'm sure you mean bandwidth rather than network latency - in which case that is really not a limiting factor when running in a datacenter (40 Gbps in at Linode for example).
Some library in python ,such as asyncio or gevent could do some work asynchronously and efficently. I will have a test later for these library. In the meanwhile , welcome to post more details about asynchronous of Node.js. Thanks for your comment again!