Python itself has to become faster.
For the love of god. Make it as fast as PHP.
My biggest pain point in computer science is that for every project I have to decide to either cope with PHP's butt-ugly namespace system or with Python's masochistic slowness.
Please, Python developers. Take a closer look at how PHP achieves its speed, hold all other development and copy whatever they do!
The result would be heaven.
It is happening: https://github.com/faster-cpython/ideas