I'm going to be very blunt because I'm growing very sick of comments like these. If this solution is bad practice or hardcore to you, then you shouldn't be doing Python. Plain and simple. There are many scenarios where one liners are bad, and this is not one of them. Under most style guides, this is the way to solve this problem. This is how it is done in production. Your solution has poor performance and looks like spaghetti - the gall to try and knock on the doors of better solutions talking about "not smart, but abstruse and overcomplicated." It is not the job of others to use simple language constructs to appease you. Look inwards and try to explore the language better.

Some people like to write one-liners as a challenge, not everyone is setting out to write perfectly readable enterprise-level code. It's not their fault other people upvote them. Let people have their fun without the lecture.

Not to mention, as far as python goes, this really isn't unreadable, it's pretty clear what this does.

Buddy, what is the overcomplication of this solution? Everything is simple and clear

Or you can print the input yourself: https://docs.codewars.com/training/troubleshooting#print-input