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What is your favorite Python syntactic sugar? (beehaw.org)

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The thing I love about python is it's elegance; and I thing that is partially due to its syntactic sugar. Between list comprehensions, destructuring, enumerators, generators with yield, and a bunch more, what is your favorite

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[–] UndercoverUlrikHD 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use python a lot to automate various file management on my computer, so

@contextmanager
def cd(newdir) 
    prevdir = os.getcwd()
    os.chdir(os.path.expanduser(newdir)
    try:
        yield
    finally:
        os.chdir(prevdir)

is my most reused function as it allows me write

with cd(newdir) 
    #stuff

So I'd definitely go with contextmanager/yield as my favourite syntax sugar.

[–] lavafroth 1 points 1 year ago

Wow, that is clever!