paste #6 :: python one-liners

# flatten a list of lists flat = [x for sub in lol for x in sub] # read a file fully data = open('foo.txt').read() # decode hex string import codecs; codecs.decode('48656c6c6f', 'hex') # decode base64 import base64; base64.b64decode('SGVsbG8=') # get all unique items preserving order seen = set(); uniq = [x for x in xs if not (x in seen or seen.add(x))]