So your argument from personal knowledge is why something is easier or harder :) Here's my experience: Having attempted to do semi-meaningful things in both a

So your argument from personal knowledge is why something is easier or harder :) Here's my experience: Having attempted to do semi-meaningful things in both a few years ago, I can tell you that hacking on wordpress and figuring out its internals (as a newbie in php) vs hacking in django (as a newbie in python) that the django experience was orders of magnitude more effort.