For me, the question isn't so much what Ruby has that Python lacks, but the extra Python bits I find annoying and/or tedious: * having to declare "self" in eve

For me, the question isn't so much what Ruby has that Python lacks, but the extra Python bits I find annoying and/or tedious: * having to declare "self" in every method argument — reading code, it just clutters up the screen/page * the big use of of double underscores for special methods (i.e., __init__, __str__, __getattr__, etc...) — IMV, it's gooberish... * no switch/case statement In defense of Python over Ruby: * I prefer the whitespace over the Pascal-ish begin/end, especially for real life code solutions * the Ruby shorthand syntax IMV at times obfuscates code clarity - is it a method or variable I am looking at? That said, I'd much rather code in either Ruby or Python than in Java or C...