Python Written in C?

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.370.1216603083.922.python-list at python.org>, Michiel
Overtoom wrote:

> Many major text/word processing programs (Emacs, vi, MS-Word) are also
> written in C. Does that mean you should do all your text processing in C?

How else would you implement a Boyer-Moore algorithm?