Yeah...for a lot of scripts I've written in Python, it doesn't make a lick of difference if they run in 1 second or 10 minutes. They're glue-type things holding some internal systems together which run in response to events or on crontabs, using widely-used battle-tested libraries, and there clearly-written + decently documented. If someone needs to mess with them some day, they shouldn't have much trouble.

As much as I would personally rather write ruby or bash over python (key error will be on my tombstone), for AWS automation stuff, load CSV, mess with it, stuff it into a DB stuff, simple REST APIs, and countless other small-ish automations, Python works just fine at the current speed.