Abandoning PHP for Python

I was always told to use the right tool for the job. After 12 years of working with PHP I'm still trying to understand what it's well-suited for. Back in early 2011 I was working for a financial data provider in London. I was working on a large, LAMP-based, client-facing project. In any file of the codebase you could find HTML, PHP, SQL, some ORM usage, JavaScript and in some directories you'd fin