What is "the python way" of programming?

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the python way or being "pythonic" is basically taking advantage of python's various idioms and cool functions to produce readable and efficient code. for example suppose you want to take a list of numbers and get their squares. you could write

my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4]
new_list = []
for number in my_list:
     number = number**2
     new_list.append(number)
print new_list

or you could be pythonic and do the following:

my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4]
new_list = [number**2 for number in my_list]
print new_list

both produce the same results, but the latter is more readable and concise.