I LOVE PEP8. There it is I said it. I love that I can look at Python code I wrote eight years ago and it looks like I wrote it yesterday (apart from the fact I've got better and working with python).
Even better I can look at someone else's code and if they've bothered to follow PEP 8 I am straight in, understanding the code and not their formatting. It removed a cognitive load that in C++ just kills me.
The Python community allied with the good programming habits (aka PEP 8) really does the difference.