This, I feel, is a rather striking difference between the development processes in ruby and python and tells more about them than any superficial language bench

This, I feel, is a rather striking difference between the development processes in ruby and python and tells more about them than any superficial language benchmark or example could. This is how generally new things to python are introduced: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/ http://www.python.org/dev/peps/