[jaegerpicker]

no it's bottle.py vs go-restful, but so what? Change the packages for nearly any you want and the results will be similar. Go is faster at runtime and python is faster at development time. Pick which trade off you want and go with it.

[no_l0gic]

This: "[X] is faster at runtime and python is faster at development time."

I wish more people knew / recognized / accepted this understanding of Python's goals. There is the old but still quite accurate: http://www.python.org/doc/essays/comparisons/

I'm not sure if Guido is the original author, but he at least comments on it. There are also quite a few excerpts going back to the origins of Python where Guido plainly states that the goals of the language are ease, brevity and developer productivity - I've never seen performance as a stated goal.