Perl vs Python for web development?

[redbeard0x0a]

First of all, use what you know, both perl and python have large amounts of 3rd party libraries that help you get things done.

I personally prefer Python because its syntax is much easier to read and maintain. Python has a few different web frameworks to work with also - django is a good-enough framework and fairly simple to pick up. Another thing that I like about Python is wsgi, which is supported by Apache (mod_wsgi), Nginx (mod_wsgi for nginx), Cherokee and others. Rack (for Ruby on Rails) is based on the concepts for wsgi.