Heck, assignment itself is a statement. That's why you can't say while x=y: ... (and you'll notice the REPL gives no return value for an assignment). This "Pyt

Heck, assignment itself is a statement. That's why you can't say while x=y: ... (and you'll notice the REPL gives no return value for an assignment). This "Python has no statements" error was one of my biggest annoyances with this article, as Python has a very strong statement vs expression dichotomy.