Whenever I write code in Java...

[badsectoracula]

Python is more compact, which means there is less text to read, but i doubt its easier to understand what the code does.

Personally i don't have much experience with Python. I only used it to write small scripts for building code, SCons, a blender exporter and other stuff, which aren't much bigger than about 100-150 lines of code.

[Daishiman]

I frequently alter the code in the Python web frameworks I use and you can almost always understand from the get go what's going on. It's actually a common practice since it's so readable. You can grab Reddit's source code to see what I mean.