Re: Good Python style?

Steven D'Aprano wrote:

It would probably be easier to read with more readable names and a few
comments:

[...]

Splitting it into multiple lines is self-documenting:

blankless_lines = filter(None, [line.strip() for line in input_lines])
first_words = [line.split()[0] for line in blankless_words]
some_set = frozenset(first_words)

Re-writing code so that it is self-documenting is almost always a better approach. Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
--
Michael Hoffman
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