Defining a list in Python is easy—just use the bracket syntax to indicate items in a list, like this: list_of_ints = [1, 2, 3] Items in a list do not have to all be the same type; they can be any ...

Readers who think some or all of that looks more like Perl—or, more pejoratively, like line noise—than Python are not alone. That is probably one of the most common complaints heard after Steve Dower ...