Does Python really follow its philosophy of "Readability counts"?

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.7012.1231718339.3487.python-list at python.org>,
 Chris Rebert <clp2 at rebertia.com> wrote:

> This is not to say that breaking encapsulation willy-nilly is advised, 
> but it does allow for some neat hackery every now and again.

I'm all for neat hackery, except when used in code that I need to read and 
understand.