Brandon Rhodes gave a nice presentation at Pycon this year on naming where he argued that "well-factored nouns" can help make code more readable... and enabling the above pattern would make it easier to do what he suggests sometimes. (For those that missed it:
http://pyvideo.org/video/1676/the-naming-of-ducks-where-dynamic-types-meet-sma, starting about 08:20 through 11:00 or so, although I think the whole talk was great).
I'm not saying that Python needs syntax for this, but I agree: the few times where I've had it come up, it is annoying.