How's ruby compare to it older brother python

[Michael]

>in term of its OO features, syntax consistencies, ease of use, and their
>development progress. I have not use python but heard about it quite often;
>and ruby, is it mature enough to be use for developing serious application,
>e.g web application as it has not many features in it yet.
>
>I've given up on Perl for its ugly syntax and it is not the easiest language
>to learn. How about PHP?
>
IMO Ruby is closer to Perl than Python as far as clearness of it's 
syntax. I really like Python better. PHP isn't as garbled as Perl but it 
isn't as flexible either and it's still not nearly as clean as Python. 
Of the four languages (Perl, Python, PHP, and Ruby) I find Python the 
easiest to work in. I use Python for command-line programming, web 
programming (mod_python), and GUI programming (wxPython and Pygame) and 
find it a good general purpose language.