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That's simply because python relies more on expressions than statements. In my opinion it doesn't take it far enough. "nearly everything is an expression" to me means the same as "this language nearly doesn't suck".
As for readability, I don't like python that much but I have to admit that there's a good reason for not bothering to comment your code. Reading through other people's code after hardly any experience with the language, it was immediately obvious what it did. And I'm not talking about trivial programs here, this was a third party library (PIL in fact).
Perhaps you'd prefer columns of statements. That's cool, just, uh, I dunno stick to BASIC or something.