I don't know how important this is, but I believe it does make it less readable for "outsiders". As a non-Python programmer it is usually pretty easy for me to

I don't know how important this is, but I believe it does make it less readable for "outsiders". As a non-Python programmer it is usually pretty easy for me to correctly guess what a piece of Python code does. (And once in a while I need to take a look at some Python code). Walrus operator got me. I tried to guess what it did, but even having simple code examples I could not. My guesses were along the lines of binding versus plain assignment, or some such. None of my guesses were even close. I had to google it to find out (of course I could also read the documentation).