[jstx1]

> And the philosophy here still applies: when you read anyone else's python code, the obvious way is probably doing the obvious thing.

I don't get what you mean by this.

When I read someone else's code, what is obvious to me isn't necessarily what was obvious to the author. For an illustration of this, have a look at the day 1 solution thread from this year's Advent of Code - https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/r66vow/2021_d... (you can search for Python solutions) - and see how many different ways there are to solve a fairly straightforward problem.