I'd combine certain ruby-isms into python, but retain pythons speed and readability. Specifically I would default dicts to return nil unless typed as strict dic

I'd combine certain ruby-isms into python, but retain pythons speed and readability. Specifically I would default dicts to return nil unless typed as strict dicts (opposite of current practice). I think the way kwargs are handled is cool and would move into Ruby. I like detatched functions way more in Python. I prefer the consistency in pass by ref vs pass by value in python, whereas in Ruby I'm never 100% sure. I like how both languages can communicate with C very easily. Edit: In python 0 should not equal False and 1 should not equal True. This has hit me a couple times and it is really annoying. Furthermore, 0 should be cast to True, as in Ruby. Only None and False should be cast to false.