5 Python Tricks That Made Me Feel Like a 10x Developer

So, here are 5 Python tricks that I wish someone had told me on day one — so I wouldn’t have been crying in main.py at 2 a.m. 😎

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🧪 1. The Interactive Shell — Your New Superpower

Back then, I used to run my Python file like a caveman:

python main.py

Every. Single. Time.

But then I discovered the -i flag.

python -i main.py

Boom. Now, suddenly, instead of your script ending at runtime and you seeing a prompt when you didn’t expect one, you are dropped into an interactive shell with all the variables and functions in your program already loaded.

Poke, prod, test and just generally feel like a hacker in a movie.