A decorator is just a function that wraps another function. Build a real timing decorator step by step: functions as values, the wrapper, the @ syntax, and functools.wraps. After that, the syntax stops looking like magic.
Reading a big file into a list can kill your program. A generator handles one line at a time. See the memory difference measured on a real file, learn what yield does, and chain small generators into a pipeline.
A closure remembers variables from the function that created it. Build separate counters with no globals, fix the UnboundLocalError with nonlocal, avoid the lambda-in-a-loop trap, and know when a class is clearer.
A for loop calls iter() once and next() until StopIteration. Write __iter__ and __next__ yourself, avoid the iterator that only works once, and know when a generator in __iter__ does the same job in fewer lines.
Write a context manager when something must be undone no matter how the block ends. Build one as a class and with @contextmanager, keep yield inside try/finally, and don't swallow errors by accident.