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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Fri Apr 20 12:25:18 EDT 2018

On Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:25:02 +0200 Christoph Groth <christoph at grothesque.org> wrote:

I think that this is the crucial point. If it is indeed a design principle of Python that expressions should not have the side-effect of assigning names, than the whole discussion of PEP 572 could have been stopped early on. I didn't have this impression since core devs participated constructively in the discussion.

python-dev and python-ideas are two different mailing-lists with different participants, so there's a selection bias here. People who are willing follow lengthy python-ideas discussions may be more tolerant to adventurous language changes. Many core developers (including myself) don't read python-ideas routinely.

Regards

Antoine.

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