I've heard before that the Ruby community accepts new stuff much quicker than Python. You can make an argument for either attitude being more healthy. Part of i

I've heard before that the Ruby community accepts new stuff much quicker than Python. You can make an argument for either attitude being more healthy. Part of it is because Python has become a core part of many Linux distributions, so it was tied to release cycles lasting years. Until quite recently, many packages were supporting Python 2.4, superseded in 2006, so they could be used on RHEL 5 servers. It's actually fairly easy to write code that works with 2.6+ and 3.x, although you do still have to pay attention to it. Supporting 2.5 or below as well makes it rather harder.