7 Python One-Liners that will Blow Your Mind

Less is more?

Xiaoxu Gao
Towards Data Science
5 min readJul 20, 2022

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The term one-liner comes from comedy where a joke is delivered in a single line. A good one-liner is said to be meaningful and concise. This concept also exists in programming. Python one-liners are short programs that can perform powerful operations. It’s nearly impossible in other languages like Java, so it’s considered as a Pythonic feature.

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