[newbie] Equivalent to PHP?

[Gilles]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 20:00:59 +1000, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>
wrote:
>Most high level languages probably have some sort of HTTP server
>available. Some make it trivially easy to plug some code in and start
>serving. Python is advertised as "batteries included", and one of its
>packets of batteries is a fairly full-featured set of internet
>protocol handlers.

Thanks for the longer explanation. With so many frameworks, I'd like
to know what benefits they offer as compared to writing an application
from scratch, and if they do offer obvious benefits, which one to pick
:-/

http://wiki.python.org/moin/WebFrameworks