Double underscores -- ugly?

[Ivan Illarionov]

I would like to see something like %init or &init to be converted to
__init__ behind the scenes. And $something to be converted to
self.something. But, unfortunately, most Python people would consider
this ugly just because Perl uses too much syntactic sugar and anything
Perl-like is considered ugly in Python community. So, unless Perl die,
I believe that Python will remain sugar-free.