[Python-Dev] Call for prudence about PEP-572 (original) (raw)

Giampaolo Rodola' g.rodola at gmail.com
Sun Jul 8 13:14:45 EDT 2018

On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 6:45 PM Steve Holden <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Giampaolo Rodola' <g.rodola at gmail.com> wrote:

​[...] I find that (space between the parentheses of a function call statement) too unnatural as a place where to put an assignment. It is not even "guarded" by a keyword like "if" or "while" which can help as indicators that an assignment may occur. Also, I think it's way too easy to confuse it with a keyword argument:

>>> foo(x = 1) # keyword arg >>> foo(x := 1) # assignment + value passing ​[...] ​But the PEP 8 spellings are​ foo(x=1) and f(x := 1). The extra spacing makes it obvious that this isn't a regular named argument.

What if the author of the code I'm reading didn't respect PEP-8? I don't think it's fair to invoke PEP-8 as a counter-measure to obviate a syntax which can clearly be mistaken with something else simply by omitting 2 spaces. Not to mention that I don't see why anyone would want to declare a variable in there in the first place.

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