CSV Parsing: Python vs Ruby

gistfile1.sh

$ time ruby test.rb 
10000
20000
...
1000000

real	0m23.596s
user	0m23.354s
sys	0m0.172s


$ time python test.py 
10000
20000
...
1000000

real	0m3.663s
user	0m3.498s
sys	0m0.123s

test.py

import csv

f = open("/Users/waj/Sandbox/binaria/binaria_gsm_20111101.csv", "r")
i = 0
for row in csv.reader(f, delimiter='|'):
  i += 1
  if (i % 10000) == 0:
    print i
  if i == 1000000:
    break

test.rb

require 'csv'
i = 0
CSV.foreach('/Users/waj/Sandbox/binaria/binaria_gsm_20111101.csv', :col_sep => '|', :quote_char => "\0") do |row|
  i += 1
  puts i if (i % 10000) == 0
  break if i == 1000000
end