Python vs. Ruby

[Hans Nowak]

Fred wrote:
> Hello all.
> 
> I know Python and have come to love it very much. Nearly all of my 
> scripting tasks with large databases are written in it.
> 
> My question is this -- what are the qualitative differences between 
> Python and Ruby? Does Ruby has any strengths, either in the language 
> itself or its available libraries, that are better than Python? Or are 
> they pretty much even?

They seem to be roughly even, although Python seems to be more mature. Choosing 
one over the other often appears to be a matter of liking or disliking 
significant whitespace, explicit 'self', and Perlish syntax.

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