This helped a lot. Thanks. Haha

slightly different but same idea

TypeError: 'int' object is not iterable ???

Makes my code looks like spaguetti

Great job with the pop idea. Elegent!

wut did I just read

Could you elaborate on what the lambda function does in your solution exactly?

This is the only right way to solve the problem. Nice job!

I brute forced it

it is not even a program. you just compressed your code into a few lines to make it look cleverer, instead it became unreadable and messed

very cool

This code doesn't work in all cases. I copied it and pasted it to VS Code and tried it with a test polynomial I made up.

poly = '2ac+8ca+9poy-21opy'

The answer should be 10ac-12opy but it returns 0ac-2opy.

The problem has to do with replacing the 1 with an empty string in the return line.

This is clear, concise and fundamentally solving the problem in an obviously efficient way. In short, a revelation.

Thanks. Your description is very helpful!