[nsaslideface]

Indeed. I find the huge "some_method" example pretty much invalid because I'd assign that dict to a variable first, so the line would be a nicer "return my_dict if y else {}". What person, style guide or PEP is forcing anyone to write some_method's return statement?

I don't get the ideal of saving space and writing huge one-liners (that in Python you'd have to break up over more lines). As they say on IRC: "if you're worried about using too many lines, I can send you a file full of blank ones."