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Enums being that slow sounds like something they will probably address at some point.

But in general the whole point of Python is that you rarely need stuff like protocol parsing drivers, you just use premade bytestream parsing engines that have Python bindings if you can, although that's not always practical.

With Python rather than asking "How do I implement this feature from first principles" you can ask "How do I implement this in terms of these large high level blocks that might or might not actually be what the problem logically calls for, but nonetheless they are blazing fast and can do the job, even with the stuff you have to do to adapt them for your task, or do I have to write my own Rust extension".

Of course that doesn't help much with uniformly slow web code, which I would imagine is why Python isn't #1 for web backends, along with typescript being really awesome these days.