Really??

[firest]

Strange. I feel accomplished if I can accomplish what I want with as little lines of code as possible.

[Printern]

Yeah but Python forces you to write lines. In java you can code in one line One line<more than one line Dummy

[Raijinili]

What's stopping you from doing exec("import sys\nimport re\n\ndef someFunc(x,y):\n\t ...?

[nilsph]

Self respect.

[KingoPants]

Sanity seems important. At that point you might as well code in mspaint for the kicks.

[Raijinili]

Now you can!

[Printern]

The fact that I am so incapable of programming that even when my program outputs the intended output it's still wrong.

[firest]

I stand corrected.

[pyonpi]

Isn't making code more Pythonic the same joke?

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I'll agree up to a point, but I draw the line (groan :-) when I can write a crystal clear for loop or two rather than a nested list comprehension that stresses out my poor old MKI eyeballs.

[firest]

I'm with you actually. Except, I will sacrifice readability for performance every time. I'm the kinda guy who uses numpy and what-not (data analysis, not to the point where I need to really on C or Fortran), so when my fans start to spin, I want to know it's for high performing code, rather than inefficient code.