I believe that jab was that PHP has a bunch of ways to do similar things and Python, in their view, is turning out that way, too.

On a more philosophical level php is this feature. At least as it was used originally and how it's mostly used today. PHP was and is embedded in html code. If you have a look at a wordpress file you are going to see something like this:

<?php ... ?><some_markup>...<? php ... ?><some_more_markup here>...