Powerful Python one-liners to look like a pro

Discover the simplicity of Python with these one-liner snippets.

Juan Cruz Martinez
Geek Culture

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Python is an amazing and versatile programming language that is very easy to learn and work with. Like many programming languages, it offers more than one way to solve a problem, some requiring more lines of code than others.

Now, fewer lines of code is not always the best answer, as sometimes we may clutter our algorithms and make them hard to read and understand, but when done right, it increases the quality of your code.

Python as a programming language is extremely good at this, reason why it is so often the favorite choice for coding challenges, interviews, and the likes.

Today, we will learn a few snippets and tricks you can use to solve everyday operations into a single line of code, going from the very simple to some more advanced techniques.

Single if-else condition

First stop, conditionals. Conditionals are great, and they are a fundamental control flow statement. Still, they can sometimes be a bit chunky, extending for multiple lines even when we want to do something simple with them. Fortunately, there’s another way with Python.

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Juan Cruz Martinez
Geek Culture

I stream, blog, and make youtube videos about tech stuff. I love coding, I love React, and I love building stuff!