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Laravel (or any other PHP framework) also requires an "up-front install", but you don't need a framework like Django to "slap" together a Python program for web purposes either. What you need is an understanding of what a CGI application does and how to deploy one with your favorite web server. Deploying a Python application with Apache/mod_wsgi (or nginx/uwsgi) is really no more difficult than deploying a PHP application with Apache/PHP-FPM or FastCGI.

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I don't think you can apt-get install python and expect to be running a webserver. But I think we can all agree that running a python web app (properly) is 10 times easier than ruby.

True, but by doing apt-get install php you won't be up and running either. My point was really to clarify that you don't need a full blown framework to run basic Python scripts for web programming purposes and also to state that the barrier to entry for Python isn't really that much higher than PHP.

With PHP you don't need any of that. All you need is to rename your index.html to index.php and re-upload. The learning curve is incredibly shallow.

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