Python v PHP: fair comparison?

[Luis M. González]

Cameron Laird ha escrito:

> In article <1163559359.010787.185840 at m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,
> Luis M. González <luismgz at gmail.com> wrote:
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> >Then look no further. Learn python and go kick php developers asses in
> >the market place.
> >There are thousands of php developers out there. Do you want to be just
> >one more?
> >I'd rather learn something newer, and much more powerful.
> 			.
> 		[more Python
> 		cheerleading]
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> Perhaps it's timely to clarify the "newer" above:  Guido
> made Python public in '89-90, and Rasmus showed PHP to
> others in '94-95.

OK. But since when has python been considered a viable alternative for
web development?
As a generalp purpose language, it's older.
But as a web development language, it's olnly when people started to
look for the "rails killer" and many python alternatives started to
come up (although Django has been in development for a long time before
all this hype).
I remember well, just a few months ago, there were many alternatives
(remember "subway"?).