Python oneliner to differentiate polynomial list

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Introduction

Oneliners are powerful and often beautiful solutions to programming challenges (see Acklamization).

Theory

Let the polynomial be described in ascending order, thus is written as a list

[2, 3, 5, 1]

. The derivative is equals a list

 [3, 10, 3
poly = [2, 3, 5, 1]  # Degrees starting from zero
print( [(i+1)*j for i,j in enumerate( poly[1:] )] )