You could pretty much substitute Ruby for Python in this post and it wouldn't change much. I mean, right down to the http modules being outdated and non-idioma

You could pretty much substitute Ruby for Python in this post and it wouldn't change much. I mean, right down to the http modules being outdated and non-idiomatic (especially urllib and urllib2). I seem to recall reading somewhere that they were written by Guido himself and were some of the first pieces of the python standard library.