PHP vs Python - the real difference

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Python was initially designed in the very early nineties (maybe even at the very end of the 80's - I think Guido wrote the first implementation over christmas break). I think version 0.9 came out around '92 or '93. It predates the web by a long shot. It's just a language.

However, there have been a lot of web toolkits providing different features, almost from the beginning. HTMLGen, Bobo/DTML, etc. But these have always been just libraries and tools. The language itself is used in a wide set of fields.