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

Antoine Pitrou solipsis at pitrou.net
Mon Apr 23 03:28:06 EDT 2018

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 00:44:44 -0500 Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

Which this alternative expresses directly: if (diff := x - xbase) and (g := gcd(diff, n)) > 1: return g That's so Pythonic I could cry ;-)

It looks like C to me. That won't make me cry (I write C++ code daily these days), but it's certainly not the same language as Python.

The second part, especially, where you use the result of an assignment expression as a comparison operand, looks definitely un-Pythonic.

Regards

Antoine.