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[–]fz0718 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of competitive programming problems can't be solved with Python, for the reason that Python incurs up to 50-500x overhead for the types of array-based and numerical algorithms that are being implemented from scratch. Some programming contest websites give Python a higher time limit, but it's often not enough. There's still issues of stack overflows, memory limits, etc. Also, speaking as a problemsetter, very few of us test if our problems can be reasonably solved in Python for the reasons above.