[borplk]

Except:

1. WSGI configuration is more complicated than you make it sound

2. In your script you have to create a WSGI compliant app. Unlike PHP's quick and dirty method of spitting stdout on the webpage which is useful in making quick and dirty single file scripts

[nkuttler]

1. PHP's configuration isn't simpler in any way, it's just that the insecure method is already configured by default, so you don't have to set it up. Python doesn't have such an insecure method, so the (trivially easy) configuration is app-specific. And that's a good thing.

2. Yes, if quick and dirty is all you want, just use PHP, there's nothing wrong with using the right tool for the job. Personally I prefer quick and clean though, that's why I try to avoid PHP.