Entries published on October 28, 2006

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Python tips: don’t be too concise

There’s an inherent tendency programmers have to take a piece of code and reduce it to the shortest possible form. The holy grail is, of course, cutting something down to a single line of code while still providing the same functionality; reducing a particular piece of code to a “one-liner”, especially if the code is somewhat complex, is sometimes viewed as a measure of a programmer’s intelligence or talent or both, and is often used as a sort of game (see Perl Golf, for example — the cult of the one-liner is stronger in Perl than in almost any other language). …

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