So I'm sure of one thing: these are stupid questions.
Seems what little knowledge I have might be relative, so I'll give the big picture:
HTML/CSS
I've done some work in HTML and can design (amateurishly) little sites with HTML, CSS, and a little Javascript action. Never attempted any sort of "masterpiece" (relatively speaking, of course) site, but I can trial-and-error it to get it to look the way I want to look.
Python
Recently I've also been using Python scripts to get some stuff done on my server (Rapidleech is much too limited for my purposes) and I've been enjoying playing around with the scripts and getting the scripts to do things. I've enjoyed the things I've managed to do with it (and the things I can imagine being able to do with it).
PHP
I've also messed around with PHP files (never actually coded anything new in it, just customized Rapidleech a little bit for my purposes).
My Questions
1) It seems to me that it might be both difficult and in some ways suboptimal to learn to use Python to develop a web page?
I mean, you can only develop a website with something like Cherrypy, Web2Py, etc....right? Doesn't something get lost in the translation where it wouldn't in PHP?
So, if one were to attempt (for example) a filemanager. From with hopefully the user could select files, and have options of moving them to folders, renaming (with a feature like was you can do with os.path.splitext() in Python), and list links. Would using Python essentially involve more (and sustained) CPU/memory than at all necessary?
2) If that were the project, how much of designing how it looks would/could be done with HTML knowledge/...use?
Thanks in advance for helping an ignorant wretch like me! =D
Seems what little knowledge I have might be relative, so I'll give the big picture:
HTML/CSS
I've done some work in HTML and can design (amateurishly) little sites with HTML, CSS, and a little Javascript action. Never attempted any sort of "masterpiece" (relatively speaking, of course) site, but I can trial-and-error it to get it to look the way I want to look.
Python
Recently I've also been using Python scripts to get some stuff done on my server (Rapidleech is much too limited for my purposes) and I've been enjoying playing around with the scripts and getting the scripts to do things. I've enjoyed the things I've managed to do with it (and the things I can imagine being able to do with it).
PHP
I've also messed around with PHP files (never actually coded anything new in it, just customized Rapidleech a little bit for my purposes).
My Questions
1) It seems to me that it might be both difficult and in some ways suboptimal to learn to use Python to develop a web page?
I mean, you can only develop a website with something like Cherrypy, Web2Py, etc....right? Doesn't something get lost in the translation where it wouldn't in PHP?
So, if one were to attempt (for example) a filemanager. From with hopefully the user could select files, and have options of moving them to folders, renaming (with a feature like was you can do with os.path.splitext() in Python), and list links. Would using Python essentially involve more (and sustained) CPU/memory than at all necessary?
2) If that were the project, how much of designing how it looks would/could be done with HTML knowledge/...use?
Thanks in advance for helping an ignorant wretch like me! =D