My friend and I are planning on building a sort of a forum type of webapp.
We've used the major PHP frameworks but we're really thinking about using Python specifically the Pylons framework for our app. Although we're competent PHP programmers, we're somewhat noobs at Python (We could create practical scripts and such). But the thing is we really want to learn Python but by testing Pylons out it seems to be really difficult with all the numerous imports and all.
What would you suggest? What advice could you give to us? How would you suggest that we learn Pylons?
I don't know about Pylons but I've been in a similar situation and built a site using Django.  I learned enough about Python in an environment that I was familiar with (web apps) that I now go to Python as my first choice.
Should we use Pylons or PHP for our webapp?