[Python-Dev] ',' precedence in documentation (original) (raw)

Stefan Rank list-ener at strank.info
Mon Sep 15 09:42:11 CEST 2008

on 15.09.2008 06:12 Guido van Rossum said the following:

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Leif Walsh <leif.walsh at gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Eric Smith <eric at trueblade.com> wrote:

assert B as S

Personally, I like 'else' better than 'as', because 'as' seems to contain the notion of assignment.

That's my gut feeling too, but I don't like 'else' all that much either (if would also make things like"assert x if t else b, msg" less readable I think). Maybe "assert B with S"???

FWIW I don't like turning it into a function either, and I really don't like keeping the keyword but changing the syntax to be function-like.

FWIW, Java's assert syntax is::

assert Expression1 : Expression2 ;

which I regularly tried to write in Python when I started with it... (minus the semicolon of course)

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