Generating more readable code

In this section, you will learn how to generate code that others can easily read and get moving without them having to ponder its inner workings for hours.

If we are writing code, we want it to be used and that means it should be understood by other people, especially if we want someone to expand upon it. They’re much more likely to bother if we make our code easy to read.

In the subsection Code to compress data, written in Python 3.10, we’ll ask an LLM for some code to compress data, but first, here’s an intro to what data compression is, so we know a bit more about what we’re doing. Data compression is important for using devices and the internet.

Introduction to data compression methods

Here’s some background on what data compression is so that the following section is easier to understand.

Lossless data compression

Lossless data compression means the signal and the noise are compressed, nothing is...