Good news!

From a VFP perspective Python is indeed some sorts of open source VFP on steroids! Back in 2000-2001 It took me a couple of months to move a complex ISAPI-based website to apache+python combo. The code base shrunk by half when moving the code to python - 2.x was just plain out. Python is now version 3 and kicking. I have stopped web-site dev at that time. Possibly a wrong career move. But no doubt, python is a joy to work with when it comes to deliver http services. Even for dummies like myself.

In the end Python has NEARLY everything a VFP may dream for except for a decent simple integrated GUI à la fox. Tkinter is not integrated and visually even more dated than VFP UI! But it's really easy for a VFPer to feel comfortable with python syntax and code dev practices. I will certainly move the code base I am in charge of to a PYQT version at some point in time:-)

Daniel