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But I don't see any real valid reasons in the article to convince people. Do I have a valid reason? Probably not, every project has their own reason to use a specific language.
One valid reason to choose Python instead of PHP: Encoding. Never had any big problems in Python and a lot in PHP. Oh and multithreading.