  One of the most important questions nowadays in physics concerns the nature
of the so-called dark energy. It is also a consensus among cosmologists that
such a question will not be answered on the basis only of observational data.
However, it is possible to diminish the range of possibilities for this dark
component by comparing different dark energy scenarios and finding which models
can be ruled out by current observations. In this paper, by asssuming three
distinct parametrizations for the low-redshift evolution of the dark energy
equation of state (EOS), we consider the possibility of discriminating between
evolving dark energy and $\Lambda$CDM models from a joint analysis involving
the most recent radio sources gravitational lensing sample, namely, the Cosmic
All Sky Survey (CLASS) statistical data and the recently published \emph{gold}
SNe Ia sample. It is shown that this particular combination of observational
data restricts considerably the dark energy parameter space, which enables
possible distinctions between time-dependent and constant EOS's.
