Unless you are hell-bent on writing obfuscated code, Python code is almost always readable. Even when I didn't know any Python or any other language, I could ma

Unless you are hell-bent on writing obfuscated code, Python code is almost always readable. Even when I didn't know any Python or any other language, I could make an educated guess what some Python program is doing. However, I have seen some of Perl code and I was like wtf. As for best practices, Python does insist on writing readable code a lot. Python people always nudge you to write readable code. Guido himself said he designed Python to be a readable language.In general, Python has the philosophy of one way of doing something which contrasts with Perl way where you can accomplish a task in numerous ways. You can't be too clever with Python (little exaggerated position). However, the same is not true with Perl.