Linux By Examples - We explain every GNU / Linux command line by examples in this blog! Bashoneliners.com. Powerful Python One-Liners. This is a page that is devoted to short programs that can perform powerful operations.
The ability to write short programs that are just as powerful as a program written in another language designed to do the same thing. However, it is sometimes fun to try and write a program in Python that is only one line. In other languages this would be nearly impossible, but in Python it is a lot easier to do.