Most beginners write 20 lines when 1 will do. Here are 5 Python one-liners I use daily:

1. Flatten a nested list

flat = [item for sub in nested for item in sub]

2. Count word frequency

from collections import Counter; freq = Counter(text.split())

3. Swap two variables

a, b = b, a

4. Read a file into a list

lines = open('file.txt').read().splitlines()

5. Filter + transform in one step

result = [x**2 for x in nums if x > 0]

These aren't tricks — they're how experienced devs actually write Python.

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