PHP as an Apache module or otherwise, would start one thread per pending request so it doesn’t scale well.
Are Java and Python my only other options?
As a complete newbie to Python, is Twisted easy to use?
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Twisted is very powerful but not easy to use, especially for a newbie.
tornado is another async server in Python, less general than Twisted (you would not use it for a network client for example) but simpler to use to implement servers, including Comet ones.