List comprehensions are not deep magic. If you use SQL as your frame of reference, it's actually pretty easy to pick up. They also add a hell of a lot to readability once you know what it does.
Your critical phrase phrase being "... once you know what it does.". I didn't say it was hard, I said it required learning and experience to use. The OP claimed that non-expert python programmers could read it without that experience. The same is true for virtually all of C++ too.
