7 Advanced Python Tricks to Level Up Your Coding Skills

At some point every Python developer writes a while True loop with a break, or a teetering stack of nested with blocks, and feels vaguely certain there's a better way. There usually is. The standard library already solved these problems; it just solved them in corners most tutorials never visit. KDnuggets has covered advanced tricks for data scientists before, with pandas and NumPy doing the heavy lifting. This list is different. Every item here is a built-in or standard-library contract, no dependencies, and each comes with the caveat that keeps it from being misused. Leveling up rarely means new syntax. It means learning what the language already promised you. contextlib.ExitStack…