[Python-Dev] (name := expression) doesn't fit the narrative of PEP 20 (original) (raw)

Tres Seaver tseaver at palladion.com
Fri Apr 27 17:28:09 EDT 2018


On 04/27/2018 05:11 PM, Tim Peters wrote:

In this specific case, line-oriented coverage tools have missed accounting for all possible code paths since day #1; e.g.,

x = f() or g() You don't need to reply to messages so obviously irrelevant to the PEP unless you want to. It's not like Guido will read them and go "oh! a binding expression in a ternary conditional is a fundamentally new potential problem for a line-oriented coverage tool! that's fatal" ;-) FWIW, Ned Batchelder's 'coverage.py' does a good job with branch coverage. I haven't seen anything in this discussion which indicates that binding expressions will change that at all.

Tres.

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