[newbie] Equivalent to PHP?

[Gilles]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:41:41 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
wrote:
>For high-availability servers, I can't speak for Python, as I've never
>done that there; but it seems likely that there's good facilities. My
>personal preference is Pike, but that's off-topic for this list. :)
>But the simple answer for simple tasks is: Don't bother with
>frameworks, run an HTTP server.

Thanks. What do you mean with "Don't bother with frameworks, run an
HTTP server"? Subclassing BaseHTTPServer?