Can Python installation be as clean as PHP?

[Edward Elliott]

XBello wrote:
> It's possible to work with php just with these single file? Maybe I'm
> doing the wrong thing, because to start to program I needed to install
> a web server too (a large bunch of files). 

PHP can be run from the command line too.  On ubuntu/debian it's available
by installing the php4-cli package.  Not sure about other systems, I didn't
see any any obvious links on the php website.