Yes, as I said in the thread I do beleive pythonc an be written in a performant way. In fact, you can say that about almost any reasonably mature language...
The point here is not if it is capable of being made performant, but rather if it lends itself easily to writing python code that is performant... I's say that it makes writing performant code particularly more complicated than in other languages, even high level languages, even though it can, with enough time and effort, do so.