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The reason why assignment expressions initially were not allowed in Python and why they had to introduce "walrus" was because in languages that used single equa

by takeda 7y ago

The reason why assignment expressions initially were not allowed in Python and why they had to introduce "walrus" was because in languages that used single equal sign for assignment enable to easily make bugs by typing "=" instead of "==".

jaynetics 7y ago
I find it strange to sacrifice syntactical simplicity for bug prevention in a language that needs deep testing anyway because it's neither nil- nor type-safe. But maybe I'm just to used to inline "=".
pyrale 7y ago
A partial solution was already introduced with `with x as y`.