[Python-Dev] PEP 572: Assignment Expressions (original) (raw)

Stephen J. Turnbull turnbull.stephen.fw at u.tsukuba.ac.jp
Thu Apr 19 23:30:20 EDT 2018


Christoph Groth writes:

Wouldn't it be a pity not to liberate assignments from their boring statement existence?

Maybe not. While it would be nice to solve the loop-and-a-half "problem" and the loop variable initialization "problem" (not everyone agrees these are even problems, especially now that we have comprehensions and generator expressions), as a matter of taste I like the fact that this particular class of side effects is given weighty statement syntax rather than more lightweight expression syntax.

That is, I find statement syntax more readable.

Steve

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