Having used both languages for maybe 7 years each, you can write unreadable code in both. I have seen some absolute disasters in Python, its really about the skill and motivation of the developer to produce readable code.
Perl has a lot more syntax which makes it harder for people who don't know Perl, but if you know the language I don't think its inherently worse.
Perl has a lot more syntax which makes it harder for people who don't know Perl, but if you know the language I don't think its inherently worse.