I'm not a pythonista but would question your recommendation of mod_python - the (current) top post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6616550 https://news.

I'm not a pythonista but would question your recommendation of mod_python - the (current) top post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6616550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6616550 (also on the front page right now) states that "mod_python has been dead for so long now that its death has gone from a liability to a potential asset". I totally agree that application code shouldn't be in a web-accessible directory - but that's a hosting/configuration problem, not a PHP (or even mod_php) problem. It's trivial to set up an index.php which bootstraps an application stored elsewhere on the server.