The reason you describe your relationship with PHP as an "addiction" instead of using a word that described a more healthy relationship is probably because ther

The reason you describe your relationship with PHP as an "addiction" instead of using a word that described a more healthy relationship is probably because there is something about it that doesn't resonate well with your core values. At least that's the problem that I had with it. If you want a nice introduction into the world of developing web apps with Python, I suggest you read the Flask user manual (see http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/ http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/). It not only covers the basics of the framework, but also seems to assume that you're a first-time Python user as well. It covers topics such as using virtualenv and pip to setup your environment which I found very helpful when getting started with the language.