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11 Python One-Liners for Everyday Programming
Amazing Python snippets that won’t take readability away
Python is a general-purpose programming language that can be used to build projects of any size and gives developers the provisions to write logical and clear code — even for large-scale projects.
The design philosophy of Python facilitates code readability by enforcing the use of indentation in order to define code blocks explicitly. Just having well-indented code, though, doesn’t necessarily mean that your code is also clear and well-written.
“Readability counts.” — The Zen of Python
One of the biggest advantages of Python compared to most other general-purpose programming languages is that it is less verbose. Sacrificing code readability for terseness is never a good idea, though. In many cases, one-liners may cause more harm than good. Trying to reduce the lines of code by putting (complex) statements together will literally kill your code readability.
Having said that, one-liners can also help keep your code clean and make it look more Pythonic. In this article, we are going to explore a few such cases and see how to use useful one-liners in common programming constructs.
