User blog comment:Crazy sam10/Buried new weapons and map load screens revealed + possible addition of Mule Kick/@comment-6343006-20130701141434/@comment-3967954-20130701161426

The Python is the better weapon. Having used both many, many times, I've generally found that the Python has saved my ass way more times. The Executioner is rather cumbersome, with dire range and accuracy, and the extra damage at close range doesn't really compete with the Python's extremo-accuracy and firepower. With the Python, you can literally just spam aim assist whilst firing and it just cuts entire groups of zombies down. Ammunition is the Executioner's only real advantage over the Python.

Plus, you'll need to be dangerously close for the Executioner take any effect on the higher rounds, even with Double Tap. Headshots with the Python/Cobra are effective on very high rounds and can be fired at a much safer distance. And, of course, the Cobra has a far, far speedier reload time. I'd go with the Python any day.