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

Ned Deily nad at python.org
Mon Apr 23 18:19:39 EDT 2018

On Apr 23, 2018, at 18:04, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:

However, against "as" is that its current use in "with" statements does something quite different:

with f() as name: does not bind the result of f() to name, but the result of f()._enter_(). Whether that "should be" fatal, I don't know, but it's at least annoying ;-)

Prior art: COBOL uses "GIVING", as in:

ADD x, y GIVING z

No need to re-invent the wheel ;)

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