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zip takes n number of iterables and returns list of tuples. ith element of the tuple is created using the ith element from each of the… (more…)

2023 Advent of Code Shenanigans. Contribute to thejcannon/AdventOf-OneLineOf-Code2023 development by creating an account on GitHub. (more…)

Ruby, unlike Python, makes lots of things implicit, and there's a special kind of if expression that demonstrates this well. It's often referred to as an "inline-if" or "conditional modifier", and this special syntax is able to return one value when a con... (more…)

Learn advanced patterns for interfacing Python with native libraries, like dealing with C structs from Python and pass-by-value versus pass-by-reference semantics. (more…)