It didn't used to be though. People would wax poetically about how pythonic some codebase was and sing the praises of idiomatic python. There was an ideological war between Python ("there should be one--and preferably only one--obvious way to do it") and Perl. ("there's more than one way to do it" or TIMTOWTDI, pronounced "Tim Toady")

Generators and comprehensions and decorators and `functools` are all relatively new.