[newbie] Equivalent to PHP?

[Gilles]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:42:56 -0400, D'Arcy Cain <darcy at druid.net>
wrote:
>I guess I am in the minority then.  I do plan to turn one of my larger
>projects into a standalone web server some day but so far writing
>simple Python CGI scripts has served me fine.  I even do some embedding
>by using server side scripting.

Out of curiosity, why did you choose to write CGI scripts or embedded
server-side scripting while standalone web servers are usually
presented as _the_ solution for Python (Django, Pylons, etc.)?