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Highly paid cleaning lady. With dirty data you get no proper results. BTW: perl is much better than python on this.

Highly paid motherboard troubleshooter, because those all those H100's really get hot, even with watercooling, and we have no dedicated HW guy.

Fighting misbehaving third-party deps, as everyone else.

Could you talk more about “BTW: perl is much better than python on this.”?

I haven't touched Perl in more than 20 years... ... but I (routinely) miss something like:

   $variable = something() if sanity_check()

And

   do_something() unless $dont_do_that

Both work in python:

        variable = something() if sanity_check() else None


        do_something() if not dont_do_that else None

There exists a ternary if statement?

foo = something() if sanity_check else None

Can replace None with foo (or any other expression), if desired.

Additionally to the provided answers:

if sanity_check(): variable = something()

variable = sanity_check() and something

(but the standard python two line way is more readable unless it's a throwaway single use code, then whatever)