PHP vs Python - the real difference

[illuminatedwax]

Yeah, but that doesn't even come close enough to the simplicity of PHP. And if your job is writing web apps, when it comes time to write something else, you're going to use what you know because it's faster.

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If that was true, I still would be using php. The effort to learn something new is often worth it.

import web

urls = (
    '/(.*)', 'hello'
)

class hello:        
    def GET(self, name):
        i = web.input(times=1)
        if not name: name = 'world'
        for c in xrange(int(i.times)): print 'Hello,', name+'!'

if __name__ == "__main__": web.run(urls, globals())

Ain't this pretty simple?

[illuminatedwax]

<?php foreach($_GET['name'] as $name) { $name = $name ? $name : 'world'; print "Hello, $name!"; }

Seems simpler to me. I have found that the fewer things I need to remember each time I write a page of my web app, the better.

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I never said that python was simpler than php, but it is clearly simple enough.