I don't really see the difference. The client code doesn't know and shouldn't know the difference between the two. I was just saying that I prefer it to stay this way. We agree then. In a sense, yes.
Readability also helps a lot.
I agree that readability is of a great importance. But I also think that one of the reasons for Python's popularity is it's combination of simplicity and power. The language is readable as is. I am just worried that the language will be polluted with a bunch of foreign constructs from other languages. Not that those constructs are bad, but they do not work as well in the dynamic systems such as Python.