I do that all the time in the interpreter, especially when slicing pandas DataFrame objects, e.g.:
df_subset = df['date buyer nwidgets'.split()]
That is far easier to type than the explicit list, with all its punctuation. Now, it's definitely weird that they did a `split(" ")` rather than just using the default, but the idea is the same.
I do try to strip stuff like that out before I put it into a script, replacing it with the explicit list, but I'm never sure if that actually improves anything. It's not as if the explicit list is any easier to read.
I do try to strip stuff like that out before I put it into a script, replacing it with the explicit list, but I'm never sure if that actually improves anything. It's not as if the explicit list is any easier to read.