Ian Bicking blog about PyWordPress, in his effort to run WordPress under Python as WSGI application using WPHP, a python module that allow you to run PHP process inside Python. Sounds cool, but I don't think it solve the real problem with Python that is deployment issues. Python while it's fun to code, is totally pain when it comes to deployment. Though with the arise of WSGI, things look's bright for Python in web development but it's still pain. PHP on the other hand, while coding in it would always end in wtf, was so easy to deploy. Either through the conventional mod_php way or as fastgi process, it's relatively easy for anyone to deploy PHP application. Not to mention the widespread support from shared hosting provider. So why not the other way around ? Create something that would allow python code to be run inside PHP ? What we gain here ? Certainly not about performance since PHP alone already sucks in performance. But maybe for fun. I can happily code it in Python and then happily deploy it under PHP. Win-win situation ?

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