Care to elaborate with an example? I use Python day-to-day and did quite a bit of Ruby a few years ago, but I fail to see significant differences in verbosity.

What I do see is that Python is somewhat less consistent and readable (list comprehensions beyond the simplest ones are unreadable, Ruby's blocks allow cleaner DSLs, len(a) vs a.size, little things like "3.times", allowing "?" and "!" in identifiers). But Python has a bigger and more diverse ecosystem. So although I would prefer Ruby over Python, the ecosystem aspect makes the point moot.