Take Javascript, if you want to iterate over a list, you have dozen of ways. One could hardly argue that one is better. Some prefer using built-in foreach, some .map, some underscore, some the native for(). As you say, great code is great code and as long as it's well written and understandable, it's good Javascript.

In python things are a bit different. There are agreed-on ways to do certain patterns. If someone uses a different method, I.e. [1,2,3].foreach(lambda x: something(x)) pythonist will all agree that this is no pep-8 standard and that for readability and maintenability's sake it should be changed to for x in [1,2,3]: something(x).

Another way to say that.. very good pythonists will agree on a "best way to do it", whereas in Lisp, very good lispers will agree that "both ways are very good and clean".

With all that being said, that's why I prefer to jump into a large python project (considering that pep 8 is strictly being used).