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1. Slicing generators for debugging
2. Structural pattern matching with dictionaries
3. File discovery by name pattern
4. Extract assignments from conditionals
5. Regex multiline flag
6. Split strings in two halves
7. Generator recipe
8. Concatenate files from handlers
9. Formatting dates with f-strings
10. Resolving paths
11. Named groups in regex
12. Formatting big numbers
13. One-shot file I/O
14. File tail
15. Idiomatic sequence slicing
16. Subclassing immutable types
17. Underscore in the REPL
18. Ergonomic multiline strings
19. Structural unpacking
20. t-strings need processing
21. Module itertools categorisation
22. Case-insensitive regular expressions
23. String constants
24. Dynamic regex replacements
25. Random choices
26. Redacting email addresses
27. Batching API calls
28. Dot product idiom
29. Counting values that satisfy a predicate
30. Format specifier !r
31. Read files in chunks
32. Bounded cache
33. Longest and shortest
34. OS-agnostic line splitting
35. Automatic enumeration values
36. Global enumeration members
37. Multi-dictionary
38. Typing iterables instead of lists
39. Inline lists and tuples
40. Transpose a list of lists
41. Normalise strings by removing accents
42. Most recently-modified file
43. Enumerations of string values
44. Return value of a generator
45. Use Literal for options
46. Flag enumerations
47. Enforce keyword arguments for options
48. Notify parent class when subclassing
49. Dynamic attribute manipulation
50. Longest word in a string
51. Chain multiple dictionaries
52. Set operations with dict.keys()
53. Current date and time
54. Dunder attribute __file__
55. Self-debugging f-strings
56. Immutable dictionary
57. Create context managers with contextlib.contextmanager
58. Type statements
59. Round to pretty whole numbers
60. Multiple options in a single case statement
61. String prefixes and suffixes
62. Run-length encoding
63. Count characters in a file
64. Remove punctuation from a string
65. map with multiple arguments
66. Schedule cleanup actions
67. Unique elements from a list
68. Last element that satisfies a condition
69. First element that satisfies a condition
70. Parsing integers from different bases
71. Type unions with the vertical bar in isinstance
72. Case-insensitive string comparisons
73. zip's keyword argument strict

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