python vs lisp

which is better?

Advantages:
Lisp
Good CLs and Schemes come with structured symbolic manipulation and pattern matching macros and functions like match for doing matching over nested list patterns to a good extent, though only up to a degree that Prolog would be better at this. Some Lisps further have a mini-prolog sub-language for those parts.

Good CLs and Schemes are JITted or compiled to machine code while preserving things like eval.

Macros.

Even Racket is about 10x faster than the scripting languages in the shootout.

Python
Indentation.