I miss working closely with other developers; that's part of why I'm blogging right now.
Python exacerbates that, because there's so many ways to do things, particularly the kinds of things I'm doing right now, like parsing text files with tables in human-readable but not-particularly-computer-readable formats.

Here's a tiny example: I needed to remove commas from strings like "1,207" before converting them to integers to graph them. I thought of using slicing, which is a powerful Python feature on lists, strings and more:

>>> string="1,207"
>>> string[:string.find(',')] + string [string.find(',')+1:]
'1207'

It got ugly fast so I looked for something else:

>>> string="1,207"
>>> string.replace(',','')
'1207'

Splits are also powerful:

>>> string = "1,207"
>>> ''.join(string.split(','))
'1207'

Of course I could also define a simple "removefrom(char, string)" function:

>>> string="1,207"
>>> def removefrom(char, string):
...     return string.replace(',','')
... 
>>> removefrom(',', string)
'1207'

To find good ways of doing things, I end up browsing a lot of Python code online. That's frustrating because some sites have started hosting "sample code" mostly as a way to put advertisements on-screen and in pop-ups. And I'm sure the most trivial code review would identify plenty of areas my code could be much more Python-clever.