[thesuperbigfrog]

>> One liners are cool and fun to write, but trying to decipher someone else's incredibly dense bash or perl one-liner is absolutely awful.

You can write hard-to-read code in any programming language.

Python lets you with mandatory whitespace so that the awfulness spans multiple lines instead.

Really talented Python programmers can do downright demonic stuff with list comprehensions.

Python appears to be simple, but is actually quite complex. I recommend reading "Effective Python" (https://effectivepython.com/) to see beneath the surface.