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Powerful Python One-Liners

* Grab a document from the `net:


I don't like the idea of python "one-liners". For instance, in the above example, there are actually 3 statments there:

from urllib import urlopen

doc = urlopen("http://www.python.org").read() print doc

My opinion is that this form is far more readable and clear. I propose that, rather than go for one-liners, rather go for "powerful code snippets", where we don't try to squeeze stuff into one-line just for its own sake. Thoughts on this, anyone?

CalebHattingh


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