What often goes unsaid is the corollary: "Any Common Lisp implementation people use contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden optimizing compiler written in C or Fortran."
Well, handwave handwave. Nothing to do with the compiler except that I'd assume if you rip out the /runtime directory you'll get a compiler that can't output working code.
The point is that these domains have a tendency to eventually overlap each other.
The Python compiler can output working code just fine. It takes either a Lisp structure (COMPILE) and generates a code object in memory, or takes a text file (COMPILE-FILE) and generates a FASL file. This has absolutely nothing to do with the runtime, except perhaps for COMPILE-FILE's need to read and write a file which ultimately needs to go through a syscall in the runtime. But the compiler is not even partially written in C. (And considering that Python originated as part of the CMUCL project in the mid-80's era of Lisp machines which didn't even include any C code whatsoever, writing even a part of Python in C would have been a curious design decision back then.)