Oddly enough, Python's use of whitespace stopped feeling unnatural after about twenty minutes.
An important measure of effort in coding is the frequency with which you write something that doesn't actually match your mental representation of the problem, and have to backtrack on realizing that what you just typed won't actually tell the language to do what you're thinking.
it is compact--you can hold its entire feature set (and at least a concept index of its libraries) in your head. C is a famously compact language. Perl is notoriously not; one of the things the notion ``There's more than one way to do it!'' costs Perl is the possibility of compactness.
The gold Python rule is "explicit is better than implicit"