20 best Python questions at stackoverflow in 2016

These are the 20 most rated questions at 2016 Stack Overflow.
Between brackets: question score & answers count
Built date: 2017/01/02 19:55:22 GMT

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1. Pythonic way to avoid "if x: return x" statements - [203/16]
2. How can I make sense of the `else` statement in Python loops? - [174/13]
3. How do I avoid the "self.x = x; self.y = y; self.z = z" pattern in __init__? - [160/9]
4. Why does the floating-point value of 4*0.1 look nice in Python 3 but 3*0.1 doesn't? - [150/4]
5. Can a line of Python code know its indentation nesting level? - [139/5]
6. Why are Python's arrays slow? - [130/2]
7. Times two faster than bit shift? - [120/1]
8. Why a comparison with a comma at the end "(1,) == 1," gives a tuple "(False,)" in Python? - [106/3]
9. When is hash(n) == n in Python? - [94/4]
10. Why do 3 backslashes equal 4 in a Python string? - [87/5]
11. Why is max slower than sort in Python? - [89/3]
12. What does x[x < 2] = 0 mean in Python? - [83/5]
13. Dictionaries are ordered in Python 3.6 - [86/2]
14. Difference between a -= b and a = a - b in Python - [87/3]
15. Is there special significance to 16331239353195370.0? - [82/1]
16. Most pythonic way to interleave two strings - [98/13]
17. Counterintuitive behaviour of int() in python - [81/4]
18. Pairwise circular Python 'for' loop - [75/17]
19. Why does Python allow function calls with wrong number of arguments? - [75/2]
20. How do I reliably split a string in Python? - [71/5]