Is there something wrong with this python code, why does it run so slow compared to ruby?

Question

I was interested in comparing ruby speed vs python so I took the simplest recursive calculation, namely print the fibonacci sequance.

This is the python code

Answer 1

I was interested in comparing ruby speed vs python

Microbenchmarks are a really bad way to compare languages, especially before you mastered both. If you want a benchmark that has any real world meaning then you need to put a lot of effort into it - or you google for "language shootout"

Here is a better comparison of Python and Ruby