> Python's strength is that it's easy to make C libs work in it.
SWIG[0] makes working with C libraries trivial for over a dozen programming languages; Perl, Python, and Ruby included.
0 - https://www.swig.org/
There are reasons all those Py libraries with C code didn't just do it in SWIG.
There are reasons all those Py libraries with C code didn't just do it in SWIG.