Please don't compare PHP with Python... They are very different worlds. Maybe not all the Python's core functions are implemented in C, but Python is really a lot more efficient than PHP in every case you want to compare.
If you "look inside", there's nothing to compare... they are extremely different worlds... they are like hell and heaven, from the awesome brilliant C Python implementation, to the ugly C PHP hack... (after all it is my personal opinion, I've worked with PHP for more than 4 years, for websites and console scripting). Python is more efficient than PHP in every aspect... I don't know why got (and still is) so popular, IMHO Python should have taken its place as the best "web scripting language". OTOH, my php install have lots more than a single executable file. Perhaps you don't use any php extension? don't think so... do you use pear? and pecl? you need lots of files too, and until you don't know what do they are and what you need or not, you will be in the same issue as you're with Python. I think you will get it early, as you find everything is more straightforward than you thought. Gonzalo Monzón. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
