(I was all stuck, I mean could you even compare both of these?) PHP and Python are majorly used in Backend Development. Syntactically, Python is almost english language oriented and it has indentation, which enhances developer's coding style and you need to write small number of lines of code in Python as compared to any other language and PHP as well. Besides this, Python has good libraries for Machine learning algorithms and Data Science. And it's frameworks like Django are MVC and boosting up in market because of simplicity, cleanliness and scalability.