Python is slower than Perl?

http://dan.corlan.net/bench.html
This benchmarking test shows that Python is over twice as slow as Perl. How can this be?

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I do. I was writing multi-expression lambdas in chained method calls in JS today. I stopped short of using combinators when I realized other staff members might have a hard time following it if they needed to make changes (it wasn't saving me much anyway.)

I chose it over 4 other popular languages I had the option of using for this particular problem.