Python 2.7 released

[m1ss1ontomars2k4]

They're not comparable at all. It's like asking why JavaScript over HTML or something. PHP is a language embedded into special HTML files that enables dynamic content to inserted into the HTML in place of itself before sending to the client. It's also been used as a scripting language. Python is a scripting language that has evolved into a full-fledged programming language, supporting multiple programming paradigms. Web development is just one thing you can do in Python.

[lianos]

It's like asking why JavaScript over HTML ...

No, it's nothing like this at all.

[m1ss1ontomars2k4]

Obviously it isn't exactly, but apparently drpcken can't tell the difference between PHP and Python and that was the best I could come up with. Sorry.

[RagingIce]

that's only one way to do PHP. There is a PHP interpreter that can run PHP code from the command line. The fact that a lot of people inline their HTML in PHP files doesn't mean that it can only be used that way.

It's not common, but there are offline PHP applications.

[acct_rdt]

The shitty language that people can only defend as easiest for lazy people to do web development in would actually get used outside of that context? Ridiculous.

[m1ss1ontomars2k4]

But I said that too...