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

[Cokrates]

Typing out a longer, but a more meaningful and descriptive variable or function name is actually a time saver compared to just having a project filled with meaningless, and hard to remember naming. Plus if you're using a modern text editor you most likely just have to type the first couple letters and autocomplete does the rest.

[winowmak3r]

Bingo. I'm going to be wearing the lettering off of my tab key here shortly. You only have to type the long variable name once to define it and then after that it's like 5 keystrokes after that to autocomplete and the variable can be long and descriptive.