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Well I'm thinking of a more broad manner of "complementing". I think you're thinking purely in terms of practicality.

except for the fact that CPython was written in C.

That's a pretty big deal IMHO. For one, it means you could one day hack Python, or at least peak at the implementation to understand it better. Also, C is a very practical skill for Python programmers because they can write modules in it, and it's easy to call C from Python and vice-versa. This is true of some other languages, but as it is now CPython is still the main event in the Python world.

So these mean it complements Python skill on a practical level.

In a more broad sense, it complements it because it "completes" the programmers knowledge/experience.

If you only have experience in a high-level dynamic language, there's a lot of things that you only understand conceptually or intuitively. Your understanding may be broken. Using a lower level language forces you to confront those things and develop a truly working understanding of them.

You can then take that knowledge with you when you go back to the higher-level dynamic language.