Clean Code in Python - Second Edition

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Pythonic Code

In this chapter, we will explore the way ideas are expressed in Python, with its own peculiarities. If you are familiar with the standard ways of accomplishing some tasks in programming (such as getting the last element of a list, iterating, and searching), or if you come from other programming languages (such as C, C++, and Java), then you will find that, in general, Python provides its own mechanism for most common tasks.

In programming, an idiom is a particular way of writing code in order to perform a specific task. It is something common that repeats and follows the same structure every time. Some could even argue and call them a pattern, but be careful because they are not designed patterns (which we will explore later ...