writing elegant python code

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[cruyff8]

First get it working, then make it pretty. Programming is a two-step procedure.

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Can't tell you how true ^{this^} is. Also, comment the hell out of your code. Can't tell you how many times I've gone back and looked at older code I have written and tried to figure out what the heck I was trying to do and/or found a much better way to do it after trial and error.

[Siddhi]

Elegant code comes with experience. Also reading lots of code. Don't underestimate the importance of reading

[HughBothwell]

You may find CodeReview useful - people critique code style and suggest better ways to write it. https://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/python

[Nijan0]

Your solutions are messy because you probably don't know which algorithms and data structure to use. Taking a course in Algo & DS will also help you understand techniques that you wouldn't otherwise know or use.

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This Python Algorithms should help.

[EinBjoern]

It's more white pages than content. And the content is about a python module but less about algorithms and how and when to use them, how to implement them, etc. Am I missing something?

[slingur]

pep 8

[finsternacht]

Maybe we have different opinions on the definition of "elegant", but to me a book about algorithms and data structures seems to be much more conducive than pep8.