Some days ago, with my team we had to fix intern's code.

We found this attempt of hiding hardcode:

return '<span>' + String(34) + '</span>'

That inspired us to figure out some other elegant techniques to hide hardcode:

#  Not hard-coded for good practice.
i = 3
return i

# Not hardcoded because its evaluated
i = 6
return i*2 - i

class Result(object):
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.value = value
def __str__(self):
    return str(self.value)


def get_result():
    #  Object-oriented for good design.
    return str(Result(3))

values = ['asd', '3f6s', 'not_hard_coded', 'abfa_efb', 'e2iwwmw']
return [x for x in values if x == 'not_hard_coded'][0]

#  Return 32, no one will notice
return ord(' ')

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