[devnonymous]

The differences you speak about arise due to the nature of their design. PHP was created for the web whereas web programming support in python wasn't part of the language design. When you speak about web programming in python, the seam between the language and the web is usually a wsgi/agsi layer. This is where all the things you mentioned come into play. There's a whole lot of benefit imo to using python over php beyond that seam.

[nijave]

There's a fair bit of nuance and it really depends on the setup. You can run Python with CGI and execute once per request but it's much more common to use wsgi/asgi. Likewise, I think php-fpm is still pretty common which runs long running PHP processes.