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The Python community strives to design pythonic idioms so that Python users can achieve their intent in a more concise and efficient way. According to our analysis of 154 questions about challenges of understanding pythonic idioms on Stack Overflow, we find that Python users face various challenges in comprehending pythonic idioms. And the usage of pythonic idioms in 7,577 GitHub projects reveals the prevalence of pythonic idioms. By using a statistical sampling method, we find pythonic idioms result in not only lexical conciseness but also the creation of variables and functions, which indicates it is not straightforward to map back to non-idiomatic code. And usage of pythonic idioms may even cause potential negative effects such as code redundancy, bugs and performance degradation. To alleviate such readability issues and negative effects, we develop a transforming tool, DeIdiom, to automatically …