A coworker of mine came and hollarred at me because on /. it mentioned 
that Python 2.4 was released...so I went to check it out.

I read the What's new section but isn't the majority of stuff they added 
in 2.4 stuff Ruby already does?

(ruby does/has)	1 PEP 218: Built-In Set Objects
(ruby does/has)	2 PEP 237: Unifying Long Integers and Integers
(dont know)	3 PEP 289: Generator Expressions
(ruby does/has)	4 PEP 292: Simpler String Substitutions
(ruby does/has?)5 PEP 318: Decorators for Functions and Methods
(ruby does/has)	6 PEP 322: Reverse Iteration
(dont know)	7 PEP 324: New subprocess Module
(ruby dont have)	8 PEP 327: Decimal Data Type
(ruby dont have)	8.1 Why is Decimal needed?
(ruby dont have)	8.2 The Decimal type
(dont know)	8.3 The Context type
(dont know)	9 PEP 328: Multi-line Imports
(dont know)	10 PEP 331: Locale-Independent Float/String Conversions

Zach