I find Python list/dict comprehensions, zip, range, enumerate etc. and the itertools module very good for such things. And you have immediate access to so many

I find Python list/dict comprehensions, zip, range, enumerate etc. and the itertools module very good for such things. And you have immediate access to so many useful modules (csv, json, xml) and can easily extract code fragments into functions. You can also execute shell-like commands with subprocess.check_output() without ever worrying again about escaping strings or accidentally splitting them at spaces or whatever. Clever one liners are difficult to comprehend. It's better to break them up to a few variable assignments with descriptive, long names without abbreviations.