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Is using lambdas to express intent not pythonic?
PEP 8 states the following about using anonymous functions (lambdas)
Always use a def statement instead of an assignment statement that
binds a lambda expression directly to an identifier:
# Correct: ...
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Python import order, mixing from ... import ... and import ... (and import ... as ...)
This is the mess of imports currently at the top of my file:
import argparse
from copy import deepcopy
from functools import cmp_to_key, partial
from itertools import chain
import math
from ...
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Is it considered bad form to call `next` on the input sequence of a list comprehension?
I want to extract lines from a stream that are preceded by the character L. The list comprehension below does the job, but calls next on the stream inside the comprehension in a way I've never seen ...
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Programming cleanly when writing scientific code
I don't really write large projects. I'm not maintaining a huge database or dealing with millions of lines of code.
My code is primarily "scripting" type stuff - things to test mathematical ...
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Is using nested function calls a bad thing?
In a recent homework assignment I ended up calling my functions in an ugly way uglyReceipt(cashParser(cashInput())) the program itself worked perfectly but I still felt like I was doing something ...
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