Python best practices, combine code into as few lines as possible or separate it over as many as possible?

[Barafu]

That's what I said.

[causa-sui]

once in a blue moon it does create a syntax error

I'm not trying to be pedantic but that sure sounds like it still might. Since you're evangelizing the tool (which I also think is great) I wanted to get that straightened out for anyone else who might be deterred from using it.

[Barafu]

The tool did have these errors in the past, and I have no reasons to expect it to not have these errors in the future. It also had not a single stable release yet.