So, yeah.. you can write hard-to-maintain code in any language, but I think many (including myself) would argue that it's much easier to do in Perl than many ot

So, yeah.. you can write hard-to-maintain code in any language, but I think many (including myself) would argue that it's much easier to do in Perl than many other languages. It's built into Perl ('more-than-one-way'), and explicitly avoided in python wherever possible. Bottom line: all things being equal, I'd argue you're more likely to end up with a Python codebase that's a pleasure to maintain than a Perl one.