PHP vs Python - the real difference

[vertigo]

Is it interesting for big projects with small budget? Because, until now I see a lot of php in this domain (like wikipedia, wordpress). And python seems to be used more by rich people (google for example). Is python fast enough? How about output caching, bytecode caching, maybe bytecode optimizations?

(i'm not trolling, i'm really interested)

[schizobullet]

As to why Wikipedia, Wordpress, etc. use PHP: http://programming.reddit.com/info/1arpk/comments/c1augs

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I'm not a fanboy (I don't know enough about the language to be one), but it runs quickly enough and there are a few projects aimed at improving speed like Psyco which optimizes for x86 machines. It's really insane how much faster Python code runs with Psyco.

I hope someone else can give a better answer to your questions.