WVU band in the Macy ' s Thanksgiving Day parade and WVU Basketball playing in Brooklyn . Crazy ! <| sep |> Irony expends enormous amounts of effort attempting to be lazy . <| sep |> Quick , eat it before it spawns more <| sep |> Seriously . WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ? <| sep |> Yeah , I ' m fairly certain the taller , slender one is supposed to be the dancer while the one next is vordt <| sep |> It seems like all my PHP friends are worried of becoming like the COMPerlDephi folk of yesteryear . I would not market myself as a $ engineer . I solve new problems while keeping the old solutions running . Sometimes this is writing a CRUD API for a data model , designing a DSL , tuning GCs , researching SMTP headers , or chasing down resource leaks . Onto your questionDjango is very popular . It ' s like CakePHP . You rely on AOP middleware to modify and handle requests . It feels like Rails . Deployment , migrations , effort , etc . are really easy if you follow the tutorial route . If you want to do something weird then you need a good understanding of what is happening behind the scenes . There is not a popular DI container , like Symfony , in Python . The other style of web development popular to Python is Pyramid and Flask , which are rollyourown minimalist solutions . Easy to prototype , less handholding , easier to debug , flexible , but requiring much more discipline . Python has a much richer ecosystem outside of the web as well , particularly around machine learning , image processing , natural language processing , statistics , and science . There are interesting and valuable problems in 2016 that are hard to solve without Python . The same could be said about most language ecosystems .