I'm inclined to agree that python isn't the "clearest and friendliest". I've been using it a while, and I still find myself looking up how to do X, when it sho

I'm inclined to agree that python isn't the "clearest and friendliest". I've been using it a while, and I still find myself looking up how to do X, when it should be obvious. I like python, but I'm amazed at how people love it. I have to maintain a codebase of php/perl/java/python. "Pythonistic" programming seems to encourage finding the shortest/fastest way to code things at the expense of clarity. Plus dependencies can get headachy. This might just be the code I have to work with, but while better than perl, in my case its harder to maintain than java or php, (the global scope thing in python seems to get me).