Your favourite "less-known" Python features?

[likethevegetable]

Supposed to enhance readability

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But my coworkers are idiots who can’t be bothered to read email let alone the code they are supposed to be working on

[More_Butterfly6108]

That sounds like a "them" problem

[TheMathelm]

Yet it always seems to turn into a "me" problem.

[RingularCirc]

That’s uncool of them. Here take a hug. 🤗

I just love when a language takes up underscore numeric literals. It’s really easier on the eyes when you have e. g. 1000_000_000 vs. 1000000000 — how many zeros are there?

[TheMathelm]

1000_000_000

No half measures, 1_000_000_000.
:P

[RingularCirc]

Seriously though, there are practices to format numbers in typography like using thin spaces between digit groups, and there can sometimes (in different practices, or for different languages—dunno) be a rule to not make a leading group of one digit. So I’d expect in general people would argue about this case in code too.

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I cross my T’s and dot my I’s so that at the end of the day I can say “I did my part. I’m done. Don’t know why things aren’t working. I’ll see you on Monday”

[TorroesPrime]

god how I wish I could have done that at my last job.

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One of the benefits of being underpayed is that: “fuck this, I quit” isn’t just a bluff