7. Becoming Pythonic
Overview
By the end of this chapter, you will be able to, write succinct, readable expressions for creating lists; use Python comprehensions with lists, dictionaries, and sets; use collections.defaultdict to avoid exceptions when using dictionaries; write iterators to enable Pythonic access to your own data types; explain how generator functions are related to iterators, and write them in order to defer complex calculations; use the itertools module to succinctly express complex sequences of data and use the re module to work with regular expressions in Python.
Introduction
Python is not just a programming language — it is made up of a community of programmers who use, maintain, and enjoy the Python programming language. ...
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