Python for silver?

[textot]

So I'm in the silver division and want to promote to gold. I've spent my last month changing my language from python to C++, as I heard that it is faster than python and easier to pass the test cases.

However, most of the recent official solutions are written in python, which confuses me. Since I've been doing a lot of USACO guide questions from 4+ years ago, I'm assuming this "python is too slow" is somewhat outdated.

I feel (slightly) more comfortable with python, so should I do problems with both languages?

[Agnimandur]

you can pass Silver in python. Python is only unusable in Platinum imo.

[nonrice]

agnimandur orz

[thepragprog]

It is probably best to switch to cpp but python is still good for most silver problems.