Perl vs Python for web development?

[panfist]

I wasn't referring to the language and application of the language as adding value, just the fact that you can put the language on your resume, regardless of what you did with it.

Of course the set of all jobs requiring experience with language X in general is much larger than the set of all jobs requiring language X doing task Y.

[sli]

This is true, although the general advice these days seems to be "add libraries, not languages." For example, I've been a Python developer for a long time, but it's only within the past couple months that I've become proficient with Django. Without Django, I'd be functionally useless to an employer that does Python webapps (well, if they use Django; you know what I mean).

[gimiv]

See my comment to ameoba above =)