I've seen locally the new Colt Cobra with polished stainless selling for over 1k. the regular Cobra sells for around 650. that's a big markup for a polish job. so I guess in comparison, the Python with polished stainless will be more expensive
overall the new Colt revolvers are expensive that's for sure
maybe there is some hand fitting and polishing. I'm not sure, i'm no expert either. but I do know one thing.....they better hurry up and ship those darn revolvers already, people getting impatient.

side note, I saw somewhere, I forget where, but Kimber coming out with more revolvers too. I think I recall a target model, and a few other models that are new for 2020, supposed to come out at shot show. Kimber revolvers kind of expensive too